• Many-handed

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    many + hearted

    Full definition of many-handed

    Adjective

    many-handed

    1. Involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.
      • 1996, Mason Malmuth, Poker Essays - Volume 2, It now appears that playing two unsuited high cards may not be so great in a many-handed pot.
      • 2010, Daniel R. Biddle & ‎Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, Low-country planters sent slaves to grow rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.
      • 2013, Paul Witcover, The Emperor of all Things, The ceiling was so high overhead that he could not see it, only long fingers of rock that depended out of the dark like icicles ... melting icicles, for they dripped with water shose mineral content -- the rich tang of iron and limestone freighted the cold air -- had accreted into slick stone fingers on the cavern floor that reached up to clasp what had given them birth, a many-handed infant grasping for its many-handed mother.
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