stronghand
English
Etymology
Noun
stronghand (uncountable)
- (obsolete) violence; force; power
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
References
“stronghand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.