hard-fisted
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]hard-fisted (comparative more hard-fisted, superlative most hard-fisted)
- Having hard or strong hands.
- a hard-fisted labourer
- covetous; niggardly
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:
- It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]