four-handed

[ fawr-han-did, fohr- ]

/ ˈfɔrˈhæn dɪd, ˈfoʊr- /

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adjective

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.

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Also four-hand

[fawr-hand, fohr-] /ˈfɔrˌhænd, ˈfoʊr-/ (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin of four-handed

First recorded in 1765–75

Words nearby four-handed

fourfold purchase, four-footed, four-four time, four freedoms, fourgon, four-handed, Four-H Club, Four Horsemen, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Four Hundred, four-hundred-day clock

How to use four-handed in a sentence

There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.
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The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
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Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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The injunction, she argued, only applies to these four plaintiffs—not to anyone else.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
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Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.
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We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
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British Dictionary definitions for four-handed

four-handed

adjective

(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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