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cag-handed

British  
/ ˌkæɡˈhændɪd /

adjective

  1. dialect a variant of cack-handed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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You may see many a cag-handed person hacking at a fowl.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack-" or "cag-handed."

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

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