"neat-handed" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From neat + handed.",
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          "ref": "1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 63:",
          "text": "Lastly, you must learn to be diligent to perform whatsoever your Mistress commands you, to be neat in your habit, modest in your carriage, silent when she is angry, willing to please, quick and neat handed about what you have to do.",
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          "ref": "1752, Christopher Smart, “L’Allegro”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: for the author, page 186:",
          "text": "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes,\nFrom betwixt two aged oaks,\nWhere Corydon and Thyrsis met,\nAre at their savory dinner set\nOf herbs and other country messes,\nWhich the neat-handed Phillis dresses;",
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          "ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 20, in Jane Eyre:",
          "text": "[…] if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.",
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          "text": "c. 1928, Rudyard Kipling, article published in The Morning Post, in Andrew Lycett (ed.), Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, p. 221,\nFor one thing, they were racially neat-handed, as those are who deal in strong sunlight with wood, fibres, cane and rattan; and their fight against fever in the past had most practically taught them tidiness."
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        "Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly."
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