neat-handed

Alternative forms

• neathanded

Etymology

neat +‎ handed

Adjective

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

1. Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly.
   • 2010, Rudyard Kipling & ‎Andrew Lycett, Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil, →ISBN, page 221:

     For one thing, they were racially neat-handed, as those are who deal in strong sunlight with wood, fibres, cane and rattan; and their fight against fever in the past had most practically taught them tidiness.