four-handed

Also four-hand

[fawr-han-did, fohr-]

adjective

1. involving four hands or players, as a game at cards.

   Bridge is usually a four-handed game.

2. intended for four hands, as a piece of music for the piano.

3. having four hands, or four feet adapted for use as hands; quadrumanous.

four-handed

adjective

1. (of a card game) arranged for four players

2. (of a musical composition) written for two performers at the same piano

Other Word Forms

• four-handedly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of four-handed¹

First recorded in 1765–75