English

Alternative forms

• manyhanded

Adjective

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

1. Involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.
   • 1996, Mason Malmuth, Poker Essays - Volume 2, ISBN 1880685159, page 82:

     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, ISBN 159213467X, page 15:

     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, ISBN 1448152445, page 372:

     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.