"full-handed" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more full-handed [comparative], most full-handed [superlative]
Etymology: From full + handed. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|full|handed}} full + handed Head templates: {{en-adj}} full-handed (comparative more full-handed, superlative most full-handed)
  1. Carrying something, especially something valuable, such as a gift.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-rfae6NLv
  2. Wealthy, having all that is needed.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-5vfjlY58
  3. Enthusiastic and generous.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-zQ8~UgW1
  4. Using the palm of the hand and/or broad gestures.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-FKo8C6RU
  5. Having people that fill all positions.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-9-TCQiaR
  6. Complete; fully qualified or fully equipped.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adj-aSHXIAqQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fullhanded

Adverb

Forms: more full-handed [comparative], most full-handed [superlative]
Etymology: From full + handed. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|full|handed}} full + handed Head templates: {{en-adv}} full-handed (comparative more full-handed, superlative most full-handed)
  1. With full hands; bearing valuables or gifts.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-14rAS07q
  2. As a wealthy person, having all that is needed.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-i6ECeGEO
  3. Generously and whole-heartedly
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-7XFE9Bz2
  4. With the entire hand.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-7I7jLX3h
  5. Fully staffed or with all positions filled.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-GOIk3xGk
  6. In a complete and fully-formed manner.
    Sense id: en-full-handed-en-adv-qXsnG4Fy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fullhanded

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1864, United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy Volume 2",
          "text": "The want met in this case was that of a delegate to go full-handed from the home to the field, who should in due time return again to the home with pledges from the absent ones;",
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          "ref": "1879, Albert Williams, A Pioneer Pastorate and Times: Embodying Contemporary Local Transactions and Events, page 184",
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          "ref": "2013, Gardner, Smart and Smarter",
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          "ref": "2014, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Diary",
          "text": "But if we must run, who are left to run? From Bull Run they ran full-handed. But we have fought until maimed soldiers, women, and children are all that remain to run.",
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          "ref": "1903, The Labour Gazette - Volume 3, page 110",
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          "ref": "1922, North Carolina Education - Volume 17, page 3",
          "text": "Language is also elemental: at the tender dawn of childhood, it enters life with laughing eyes and prattling lips; at maturity's noon, it moves full-handed and deep-voiced in all the concerns of men;",
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          "text": "As they passed Shack he reached out and gave Helen a massive, full-handed pinch on the buttock and winked at me with relaxed, expansive good cheer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous",
          "text": "Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about \"Nina, innocente!\" ending with a full-handed sweep that brought the song up with a jerk.",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, Marvin J. Fine, Systematic Intervention with Disturbed Children",
          "text": "The switches go in either direction around the triangle, and a player may find himself playing as many as three positions in a full-handed game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World",
          "text": "So in the first hour of my lone voyage I had proof that the Spray could at least do better than this full-handed steamship, for I was already farther on my voyage than she.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Clara Barton, A Story of the Red Cross",
          "text": "It was a new and sorry sight for our full-handed American farming men to see those poor, hard Asiatic hands trying, by main strength, to break the tough straw or pull it by the roots.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Robert Stanek, In the Service of Dragons Boxed Set",
          "text": "She had, after all, learned from the same master he had although matched daggers offered no reach compared to a full-handed sword.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, American bankruptcy reports - Volume 18, page 205",
          "text": "It seems to be a full-handed failure. The bankrupts must have a good deal of the values remaining in their hands.",
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "empty-handed"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "full",
        "3": "handed"
      },
      "expansion": "full + handed",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From full + handed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more full-handed",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most full-handed",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "full-handed (comparative more full-handed, superlative most full-handed)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2",
          "text": "On this occasion the minister came full-handed. He told her, first, as appears from her notes and letters, that he had definitely decided to appoint a Sanitary Committee at the India Office. He read out the list of names;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, United States Christian Commission, for the Army and Navy Volume 2",
          "text": "The want met in this case was that of a delegate to go full-handed from the home to the field, who should in due time return again to the home with pledges from the absent ones;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "With full hands; bearing valuables or gifts."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ambrose Bierce, The Moonlit Road",
          "text": "One does not remember one's birth -- one has to be told. But with me it was different; life came to me full-handed and dowered me with all my faculties and powers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893 January, Edith Wharton, “Experience”, in Scribner's Magazine",
          "text": "O, Death, we come full-handed to they gate, Rich with strange burden of the mingled years",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As a wealthy person, having all that is needed."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, Albert Williams, A Pioneer Pastorate and Times: Embodying Contemporary Local Transactions and Events, page 184",
          "text": "By the promptings of religious instinct and principle, our churches have been built and our asylums founded, and charity full-handed has bestowed her lavish gifts upon the unfortunate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Generously and whole-heartedly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Generously",
          "generously"
        ],
        [
          "whole-heartedly",
          "whole-heartedly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gardner, Smart and Smarter",
          "text": "Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "With the entire hand."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Diary",
          "text": "But if we must run, who are left to run? From Bull Run they ran full-handed. But we have fought until maimed soldiers, women, and children are all that remain to run.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, The Labour Gazette - Volume 3, page 110",
          "text": "...though in the case of the bakers and confectioners at Winnipeg, the shops and factories concerned are running full-handed and most of the employees affected have obtained employment elsewhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fully staffed or with all positions filled."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, North Carolina Education - Volume 17, page 3",
          "text": "Language is also elemental: at the tender dawn of childhood, it enters life with laughing eyes and prattling lips; at maturity's noon, it moves full-handed and deep-voiced in all the concerns of men;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a complete and fully-formed manner."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fullhanded"
    }
  ],
  "word": "full-handed"
}

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