sure-handed adjective3 •Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task.It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error. — 2006 •Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed. — 1861 •Skillfully executed.