The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hard-handed \Hard"-hand`ed\ (-h[a^]nd`[e^]d), a. Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Hard-handed men that work in Athens here.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of hardhanded English)
Usage examples of "hard-handed".
Therefore complain I not of modern degeneracy, when, even from the open window of the small unlovely farmhouse, tenanted by the hard-handed man of bovine flavors and the flat-patterned woman of broken-down countenance, issue the same familiar sounds.
His mother had been his mother that capable, hard-handed woman in long apron, spooning out porridge or carding wool or weavingall his life.
Therefore he had sweated in agony, seeing the Stepsons ride north and Critias ride with them: therefore he had prayed nightly to the darkest of gods for the saving of one Stepson from war and from the chances of war-and for the weaving of spells about the other, spells that should damn him to hell and bring Critias-the stiff-necked, hard-handed Critias, straight from war and arriving bloody-minded in a town rife with ensorcelments, a town Straton commanded-bring Critias back with a vengeance, oh, yes, the man of war to the man bespelled, his partner, his-lover, doubtless, in the way of Sacred Band partners: Nas-yeni knew every detail he could glean of the Sacred Band, studied them, obsessively, the way he had once studied his rivals in business, and studied, most particularly, this Pair, their reputations, their manner, the time of their sleeping and eating and the look on their faces .
After a man has been surrounded for months by a lot of hard-handed, hairy-chested men even the doggiest kind of female looks mighty good.
Out of the government for years, Golda had been a hard-handed political boss of Labor, but now she was presumably just a private citizen.