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many-handed en · ADJ

Etymology

From many + handed.

Meanings

1. Involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.
   • 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. 2013, Paul Witcover, The Emperor of all Things, →ISBN, page 372:
   • 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

Deriveds

many-handedness · many-handedly