three-handed

[three-han-did]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of three-handed¹

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

“The fashion that we did it … doing this three-handed, it’s just amazing.”

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In the evenings we played three-handed bridge with an Englishman named Harris, who had walked over from Saint Jean Pied de Port and was stopping at the inn for the fishing.

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In the manner of Brahms, some of the virtuosity is a bit hidden; the very pretty, almost three-handed second subject in the first movement doesn’t sound at all difficult, but you spend more time on those two minutes than on the whole movement or even the whole piece.

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By coating a strip of paper with a three-handed flu binder and applying influenza samples on top, the same team was able to detect the presence of viral surface protein even at very low concentrations.

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The best three-handed protein, called Tri-HSB.1C, was able to bind tightly to diverse strains of influenza.

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