English Dictionary

full-handed

adj

Carrying something, especially something valuable, such as a gift. / Wealthy, having all that is needed. / Enthusiastic and generous. / Using the palm of the hand and/or broad gestures.

She walked into the room full-handed, carrying bags of groceries.

意味（1）

Carrying something, especially something valuable, such as a gift.

He was not only carrying a candle to put the finishing touch to him as a target; he had dispensed with coat and waistcoat downstairs, and was at once full-handed and unarmed

意味（2）

Wealthy, having all that is needed.

Mr. Beers came to the country full-handed, with a handsome competency to commence any business he might choose, independent of missionary patronage.

意味（3）

Enthusiastic and generous.

Have we not the theatre, its triumphs, and full-handed thunders of applause?

意味（4）

Using the palm of the hand and/or broad gestures.

A spit on the palm and a full-handed slap was a deal but if only fingertips slapped then the bargaining would continue.

意味（5）

Having people that fill all positions.

All that was about what you should do in a full-handed hold 'em game when you're the small blind versus a big blind. But, suppose instead that the game is two-handed from the get go.

意味（6）

Complete; fully qualified or fully equipped.

He regarded his younger brother as a “full-handed man of practice” and himself merely “a supported theorist.”