Definition of "neat-handed" in English

adjective

1. Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly.

   • c. 1928, Rudyard Kipling, article published in The Morning Post, in Andrew Lycett (ed.), Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, p. 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.