"close-handed" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From close + handed.",
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      "form": "more close-handed",
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      "form": "most close-handed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "closehanded"
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          "ref": "1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "they were outcasts, paupers, unfriended beings, to whom the most scanty pittance was a matter of favour, and who were treated merely as children of peasants, yet poorer than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, a thankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.",
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          "ref": "1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:",
          "text": "Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, David Daniel, White Rabbit: A Mystery, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Charles Spurgeon, Vol. 33 Sermons 1938-2000:",
          "text": "In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting.",
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  "word": "close-handed"
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  "etymology_text": "From close + handed.",
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          "ref": "1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "they were outcasts, paupers, unfriended beings, to whom the most scanty pittance was a matter of favour, and who were treated merely as children of peasants, yet poorer than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, a thankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.",
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          "ref": "1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:",
          "text": "Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, David Daniel, White Rabbit: A Mystery, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too.",
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          "text": "In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting.",
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