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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Games Involving or requiring four players.
  • adjective Designed for four hands, as a piano duet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having four hands; quadrumanous.
  • Done or played by four hands, or by four persons: as, a four-handed piece for the piano; a four-handed game of cards.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having four hands; quadrumanous.
  • adjective Requiring four “hands” or players.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having four hands; quadrumanous.
  • adjective Requiring four players.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of card games) involving or requiring four players

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four +‎ handed

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