ppl. a. [f. FIST sb.1 + -ED2.] Having or possessed of fists, fighting with the fists.

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1806.  Sporting Mag., XXVII. 243/2. A manifestation of the fisted knights being well matched.

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  b.  In combination with some defining prefix, as close-, clumsy-, hard-fisted: see those words.

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