Definitions for four-handed

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four-handed four-hand·ed

Spelling: [fawr-han-did, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔrˈhæn dɪd, ˈfoʊr-/

Four-Handed is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in four-handed (-addefhnoru).

Definitions for four-handed

adjective

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

Origin of four-handed

First recorded in 1765-75

Examples for four-handed

Julia performed some four-handed pieces on the piano with her mother.

We shot a good deal of game—quadruped, four-handed, and feathered.

As to himself, his own toes were put to every possible use, so that you would almost call him four-handed.

But, besides all these, we are here presented with representatives of the order of Quadrumana, or four-handed animals.

Neither the strange noises nor the violent gesticulations of its four-handed enemy seemed to have any effect upon it.

They've started a four-handed game of pool in the billiard room.

In the four-handed game either each player plays for himself, or two adjacent players play against the other two.

So they went and made a four-handed game with two of the girls.

We are going over to the Lewinsohns for four-handed rummy and then a rarebit.

From this circumstance comes the designation, Quadrumana, or "four-handed," so often applied to these animals.