toom-handed adjective 1adverb 1 adjective1 •(dialect, Scotland) Emptyhanded.Tis maybe better, I'll take fat ye gee, Ye're nae toom-handed gin your heart be free — 1812 adverb1 •(dialect, Scotland) Emptyhanded.I wis he had na been so headstrong ; but it's a' his ain fault : howsever, it would na be canny to gang toom-handed, and I hae got a bit bill for five score pounds that I'm mindit to gie him. — 1823
