Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three hands.
- Done, played, etc., with three hands or by three persons: as, three-handed euchre.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one.
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Examples
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And In three-handed bridge, the dummy was the fourth pile of cards on the floor, which he always wanted but seldom got.
Three-handed Bridge Christopher Allen 2011
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009, Icon, 18) is a stripped-down, three-handed thriller shot almost entirely on a single-location set; a fortified room in which the eponymous heroine is held.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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And In three-handed bridge, the dummy was the fourth pile of cards on the floor, which he always wanted but seldom got.
Three-handed Bridge Christopher Allen 2011
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The Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev Every suspect character in Turgenev's stories seems dedicated to playing "preference", a kind of three-handed whist.
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I helped get a pitiful three-handed $1-2 no-limit game going.
Poker at Charles Town Races and Greenbrier Justin Moyer 2010
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She had just dropped in to see us, she said, - and was very bright, and played a three-handed card game with us, which was a trying one for East, I could see.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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And while their three-handed "High Performance Work Organization" isn't perfect, it has clearly led to better financial results for the company, better wages and benefits for the workers, and better motorcycles.
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Rules and tactics of trio bridge, the official form of three-handed contract bridge by George S. Coffin, edited with an introduction by Guy Ramsey.
Guy Ramsey Steve 2010
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Instead, the United States cut a three-handed deal.
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Sadly I have no pictures of this process I was home alone, without my husband/photographer to take the three-handed shots! but it definitely works.
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