English

Alternative forms

• brokenhanded

Adjective

broken-handed ‎(not comparable)

1. Having a hand that is broken.
   • 1916, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Volume 65:

     If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;

   • 2011, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1:

     The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon.

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, Cold War Reprise, ISBN 1488780781:

     The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard.

2. Performed using a broken hand.
   • 2011, P. T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory: A Novel, ISBN 1429968036, page 15:

     He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees.