What is "one-armed"

Usage examples of "one-armed".

I saw him wink at the one-armed kitchen boy and slip him a couple of crumpled Afghani notes.

When Marge arrived tonight, she would watch over Dunlap while the one-armed man and the son in need of a father would ride out to check the steers, and in the meantime, Slaughter leaned back, smiling, as the setting sun cast an alpenglow on Lucas who rode straight and strong, and a colt veered from its mother, and they gamboled in the sun.

Admittedly, they did not know how to nab, stab, or otherwise stop that one-armed lunatic without throwing away a fortune in legal fees and court costs, but they kept hoping desperately that some land of deus ex machina would intercede for them.

Chron and one-armed Pirk brought up to our makeshift camp in animal bladders.

I never heard of a one-armed smith teaching smithery, but then I never heard of a farmer teaching soldiering, either.

The one-armed man protested energetically, but Chiao Tai clapped his shoulder and they left.

I remember their singed lawns and white-pillared porches, and the lone gas stations, the pumps like cylindrical one-armed robots, their glass tops like brimless bowler hats, and the cemeteries that looked as if no one else would ever be buried in them.

He looked at Relyn a moment, then beckoned, and walked away from the emplacement, letting the one-armed man follow.

Blynnal had worshiped Relyn before the one-armed man had slipped out of Westwind one step ahead of a vengeful Ryba.

One reason they usually parked elsewhere was because one-armed Onofre Mar-tinez, the Staurolite Baron and father of Bruno Marti-nez the cop, always parked his mottled-green, 1953 Chevy pickup in front of the meter.

Two hours later he got his first ride of the day from a one-armed ex-cop who drove him fifty miles and warned of the youthful enthusiasms of his unretired brethren.

There were the two beehives Onofre Martinez had built and which the one-armed man cared for, supplying the Blooms with honey as a kind of rent.

The one-armed man protested energetically, but Chiao Tai clapped his shoulder and they left.

Bruno passed through the fire and Bobrowski the robber with his crony Materna, with whom it all began, set fires in houses that had been previously notched -- sunsets, sunsets -- Napoleon before and after: then the city was ingeniously besieged, for several times they tried out Congreve rockets, with varying success: but in the city and on the walls, on Wolf, Bear, and Bay Horse Bastions, on Renegade, Maidenhole, and Rabbit Bastions, the French under Rapp coughed, the Poles under their prince Radziwil spat, the corps of the one-armed Capitaine de Chambure hawked.

Busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the itch, if you know what I mean.