All 3 Uses of
dexterity
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The only danger I apprehend of obstruction to your march is from ambuscades of Indians, who, by constant practice, are dexterous in laying and executing them; and the slender line, near four miles long, which your army must make, may expose it to be attack'd by surprise in its flanks, and to be cut like a thread into several pieces, which, from their distance, can not come up in time to support each other.†
dexterous = skillful
- The Indians are dextrous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not.†
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- Our axes, of which we had seventy, were immediately set to work to cut down trees, and, our men being dextrous in the use of them, great despatch was made.†
Definition:
adroitness (skill) -- with the hands or mind