broken-handed adjective2 •Having a hand that is broken.The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon. — 2011 •Performed using a broken hand.He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees. — 2011
