four-handed
involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
intended for four hands, as a piece of music for the piano.
having four hands, or four feet adapted for use as hands; quadrumanous.
Origin of four-handed
1- Also four-hand [fawr-hand, fohr-] /ˈfɔrˌhænd, ˈfoʊr-/ (for defs. 1, 2).
Words Nearby four-handed
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How to use four-handed in a sentence
The four-handed animals fill up the great chasm between the quadruped and the human species.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonJulia performed some four-handed pieces on the piano with her mother.
Led Astray and The Sphinx | Octave FeuilletPlayed an interesting game of four-handed chess by candle light before retiring.
An Artilleryman's Diary | Jenkin Lloyd JonesThree or even two may play Pung Chow, though the game is essentially a four-handed affair.
Pung Chow | Lew Lysle HarrThey have hitherto been classed together in the same order with Apes which Blumenbach called Quadrumana (four-handed).
The History of Creation, Vol. II (of 2) | Ernst Haeckel
British Dictionary definitions for four-handed
(of a card game) arranged for four players
(of a musical composition) written for two performers at the same piano
Derived forms of four-handed
- four-handedly, adverb
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