HARD-FISTED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Hard-fisted

... impudent old skinflint, who had definite notions about niggers, and hired Ben a summer and would not pay him. Then the hungry boy gathered his sacks together, and in broad daylight went into Carlon's corn; and when the hard-fisted farmer set upon him, the angry boy flew at him like a beast. Doc Burke saved a murder and a lynching ...

— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... she's married again,—married a man named Tom Allen, a merchant. He knows father, and he flocked it into the old man in great shape," and Nat actually chuckled. "Told me just what kind of a man dad was—hard-fisted and miserly—somebody nobody loved or wanted to associate with. And he warned me not to grow up the same way—not to think money was everything, and all that. He said a boy ought to be known for his real worth, not his dollars ...

— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer