four-handed

four-handed [fawr-han-did, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

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-] /ˈfɔrˌhænd, ˈfoʊr-/ (for defs 1, 2). Origin of four-handed First recorded in 1765–75 Examples from the Web for four-handed Historical Examples of four-handed

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

On the Banks of the Amazon

W.H.G. Kingston

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

Dr. Jolliffe’s Boys

Lewis Hough

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

Local Color

Irvin S. Cobb

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

The Zeppelin’s Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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

Led Astray and The Sphinx

Octave Feuillet

British Dictionary definitions for four-handed four-handed adjective

1. (of a card game) arranged for four players
2. (of a musical composition) written for two performers at the same piano

Derived Formsfour-handedly, adverb