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Horny-handed

Horny-handed \Horn"y-hand`ed\, a. Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

Usage examples of "horny-handed".

Had one of his horny-handed guardians from the tower finally been able to reach him?

While the horny-handed sons and daughters of toil were busily getting it on, hundreds of half-assembled car bodies crashed and thundered into an untidy pile forty feet high.

Tired and horny-handed, their bodies lean and tempered hard with toil, they stood together and watched the needle creek up round the pressure gauge until it touched the red line at the top.