handy

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  1. adjective Skillful in using one's hands; manually adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous.
  2. adjective Readily accessible: found a handy spot for the hammer.
  3. adjective Useful; convenient: a handy tool.

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  • They had no check handy, and Gloucester in particular foreread his death-warrant, but of necessity he shouted with the others, "Hail, King of England That afternoon the King's assumption of all royal responsibility was commemorated by a tournament, over which Dame Anne presided. —  Chivalry
  • We could plainly see "Kaposia" six miles away Christmas the company sent me one hundred dollars which came in handy, as I was just married Mr. Caleb Dorr--1847, Ninety years old I came to St. Anthony in 1847 and boarded at the messhouse at first. —  Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
  • Mrs. Merriman always kept a clinical thermometer handy, and on discovering that the young girl's temperature was considerably over one hundred degrees, she took fright and had her removed to a room in a distant part of the house If she is not better in the morning we will send for the doctor," was her verdict. —  A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls
  • Brushwood was handy, and having started a fire they cleaned some of the fish and set it to broiling. —  The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall
  • I was quick and handy, and I worked early and late. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
 

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convenient ·  helpful ·  nice ·  useful ·  neat ·  clever ·  decent ·  slim ·  lucky ·  economical ·  cheap

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handy:   handier ·  handiest
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  1. A modern form, reverting to the orig. vowel of hand, of the earlier hendy, q. v.
 

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