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many-handed

many-handed adjective: involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.

Adjective

many-handed (comparative more many-handed, superlative most many-handed)

  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.1996, Mason Malmuth, Poker Essays - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 82
    • Low-country planters sent slaves to grow rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, →ISBN, page 15

Forms of many-handed

comparativemore many-handed
superlativemost many-handed
alternative formmanyhanded

Origin of many-handed

From many + handed.

Words formed from many-handed

Questions about many-handed

What does many-handed mean?
Many-handed means involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.
What part of speech is many-handed?
Many-handed is an adjective.

Words near many-handed in the dictionary

  1. many-body problem
  2. many-coloured
  3. many-eyed
  4. many-faced
  5. many-faceted
  6. many-handed
  7. many-handedly
  8. many-handedness
  9. many-kinded
  10. many-many
  11. many-one

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