stronghand
English
Etymology
strong + hand
Noun
stronghand (uncountable)
- (obsolete) violence; force; power
- It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand. — Sir Walter Raleigh.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stronghand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)