English

Adjective

close-handed ‎(comparative more close-handed, superlative most close-handed)

1. Alternative form of closehanded
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:

     ...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.

   • 1847, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights:

     Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near—close-handed;

   • 2003, David Daniel, White Rabbit: A Mystery, ISBN 1466836210:

     Close-handed with his own information, he suspected others of holding out, too.

   • 2015, Spurgeon, Charles, Vol. 33 Sermons 1938-2000:

     In the last place. I am to come to close-handed fighting.