"strait-handed" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From strait + handed.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1643, Daniel Cawdrey, The good man a publick good:",
          "text": "It is observable that is noted of those first converts, who were before strait-hearted and strait-handed, but when once made partakers of the Grace of God, how much they were enlarged, Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessours of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of things that were sold: And laid them downe at the Apostles feet, and distribution was made to every man, according as he had need.",
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          "ref": "1743, Joseph Davidson, transl., The Satires, Epistles and Art of Poetry of Horace, page 28:",
          "text": "The Fear of passing for a Prodigal makes this Man so wretchedly covetous and strait-handed, that he will not assist the sincerest Friend on the most pressing Occasion.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Firdausi, Epic of Kings, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "For she said- “This is not the hour to be strait-handed; suffer that I take what seemeth good unto me and go before Saum, it may be that I move him to spare the land.”",
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        "parsimonious; sparing; niggardly"
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        "(archaic) parsimonious; sparing; niggardly"
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          "word": "straithanded"
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  "word": "strait-handed"
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  "etymology_text": "From strait + handed.",
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          "ref": "1643, Daniel Cawdrey, The good man a publick good:",
          "text": "It is observable that is noted of those first converts, who were before strait-hearted and strait-handed, but when once made partakers of the Grace of God, how much they were enlarged, Neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as were possessours of lands or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of things that were sold: And laid them downe at the Apostles feet, and distribution was made to every man, according as he had need.",
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