close-handed

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He's rich enough to live in a finer house than this," said Mrs. Dean; "but he's very close-handed.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Reputed to be comfortably rich, Miss Gale was "close-handed" and thrifty.

From Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale by Standish, Burt L.

But though the cap is now exchanged for a crown, and the stadtholder is a monarch, the policy seems to flourish on the old footing of their close-handed fathers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

Henry was an affectionate but a suspicious and close-handed father.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various