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many-handed

adj

Etymology

From many + handed.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as many-handed — “many + handed”

Definitions

  1. Involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.

    • It now appears that playing two unsuited high cards may not be so great in a many-handed pot.
    • Low-country planters sent slaves to grow rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA