Meaning of many-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

Involving, requiring, or possessing many hands.

Examples

“It now appears that playing two unsuited high cards may not be so great in a many-handed pot.”

“Low-country planters sent slaves to grow⟳ rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.”

“The ceiling was so high overhead that he could not see⟳ it, only long fingers of rock that depended out of the dark like⟳ icicles ... melting icicles, for they dripped with water shose mineral content -- the rich tang of iron⟳ and limestone freighted the cold air -- had accreted into slick stone fingers on the cavern floor that reached up to clasp what had given them birth, a many-handed infant grasping for its many-handed mother.”

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