four-handed

four-handed
/fawr"han"did, fohr"-/, adj.
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.
Also, four-hand /fawr"hand', fohr"-/ (for defs. 1, 2).
[1765-75]

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