English

Alternative forms

• Hundred-Handed
• Hundredhanded
• hundred-handed

Adjective

Hundred-handed ‎(not comparable)

1. Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.
   • 1855, James Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus - Volume 2, page 99:

     Uranos imprisoned the Titans in the earth, and threw the Cyclops and Hundred-handed Giants into Tartarus, but was at length overthrown and disabled by his son Cronos the Titan, who thereupon released his brother Titans and established the second dynasty of gods called the Cronids.

English

Adjective

hundred-handed ‎(not comparable)

1. Having 100 hands.
   • 2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, ISBN 1441128603, page 90:

     Of course, it's impossible to follow up on every single big of misbehaviour and less-than-perfect conduct that you will come – you're not some hundred-handed Eastern deity – but you must be seen to be doing what you can.

2. Alternative form of Hundred-handed
   • 2011, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, ISBN 0571265510, page 75:

     In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly.