"swifthanded" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more swifthanded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most swifthanded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swifthanded (comparative more swifthanded, superlative most swifthanded)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "swift-handed"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee Lee, Alan Clark, A good innings: the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, page 345",
          "text": "Meanwhile, in default of other and more useful occupation I was pressing on seriously with the production of this memoir, guided and inspired by Ruth's diaries, and supported by the ministrations of 'Hardie', our loyal, swifthanded, and unruffle-able secretary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Women of Korea - Issues 61-72, page 19",
          "text": "Simple people imagined his swifthanded correctness of mustering, dispersing and moving his units only through a story about the \"magic of shortening distance\" found in a legend",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850",
          "text": "His maid is the queerest little body you ever saw; Recca (\"Dumpy\" Recca he calls her), a little black-eyed loud-voiced swifthanded Fenella of a creature, hardly above 3 1/2 feet high, for she has a terrible crook in her back;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Robert K. DeArment, Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West - Volume 1",
          "text": "Bill Standifer's spreading reputation asa straight-shooting, swifthanded gunfighter sometimes was enough to defuse potentially violent confrontations, as in the summer of 1889 when IOA Ranch manager Rollie Burns came to the sheriff with a problem.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of swift-handed"
      ],
      "id": "en-swifthanded-en-adj-3ASpwExc",
      "links": [
        [
          "swift-handed",
          "swift-handed#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swifthanded"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more swifthanded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most swifthanded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swifthanded (comparative more swifthanded, superlative most swifthanded)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "swift-handed"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1974, Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee Lee, Alan Clark, A good innings: the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, page 345",
          "text": "Meanwhile, in default of other and more useful occupation I was pressing on seriously with the production of this memoir, guided and inspired by Ruth's diaries, and supported by the ministrations of 'Hardie', our loyal, swifthanded, and unruffle-able secretary.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Women of Korea - Issues 61-72, page 19",
          "text": "Simple people imagined his swifthanded correctness of mustering, dispersing and moving his units only through a story about the \"magic of shortening distance\" found in a legend",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850",
          "text": "His maid is the queerest little body you ever saw; Recca (\"Dumpy\" Recca he calls her), a little black-eyed loud-voiced swifthanded Fenella of a creature, hardly above 3 1/2 feet high, for she has a terrible crook in her back;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Robert K. DeArment, Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West - Volume 1",
          "text": "Bill Standifer's spreading reputation asa straight-shooting, swifthanded gunfighter sometimes was enough to defuse potentially violent confrontations, as in the summer of 1889 when IOA Ranch manager Rollie Burns came to the sheriff with a problem.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of swift-handed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swift-handed",
          "swift-handed#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swifthanded"
}