hundred-handed

English

Adjective

hundred-handed (not comparable)

  1. Having 100 hands.
    • 2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, →ISBN, page 90:
      Of course, it's impossible to follow up on every single big of misbehaviour and less-than-perfect conduct that you will come – you're not some hundred-handed Eastern deity – but you must be seen to be doing what you can.
  2. Alternative form of Hundred-handed
    • 2011, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, →ISBN, page 75:
      In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly.
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