mechanically-minded

"I could see she's awfully mechanically-minded for a woman, even if it wouldn't be polite to say so.

More mechanically-minded inventors tend to devote their time to making the sock perform double duty.

Being large, mechanically-minded and an excellent foot-baller, Robin felt it was not quite proper for him to show eagerness for any activity as lady-like as carol-singing.

The mechanically-minded Goelz worked for such companies as John Deere, American Airlines, and Hewlett Packard.

At the ball, Kaylee's friendly attempt to mix with the debutantes fails, but she is rescued by an older gentleman, then drawn to a group of several mechanically-minded men.

The Great Automatic Grammatizator (from Someone Like You): A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles.

The hobby of ornamental turning declined rapidly following the invention of the motor-car which, by the end of the First World War, had become the fashionable pastime of the mechanically-minded amateur, and the lathes with their complex equipment were abandoned.

Very quickly, being mechanically-minded like his father, he learned to switch on the radio, the TV, the washing machine; to unplug the refrigerator and start it defrosting; to pick his father's jacket pockets for loose change, which with gleeful squeals he'd toss rolling and bouncing across the floor.