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Off-handed, a.

Add: b . Mining. = prec. A.2b x-o-u-u-r
1906 Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 5/2 The ‘off-handed’ men..dispersed into the four seams of the pit.x-o-u-u-u

 

Off-handedly, adv. (Earlier example)

1886 19th Cent. Oct. 541 The newspaper moralisers speak off-handedly of the skilled workman earning his two or three pounds a week.x-o-u-u-x