Usually means: Mythical giants with many arms.
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  1. hundred-handed: Wordnik
  2. Hundred-Handed, Hundred-handed, hundred-handed: Wiktionary
  3. Hundred-handed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Hundred-handed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hundred-handed)

adjective:  Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.
adjective:  Having 100 hands.
adjective:  Alternative form of Hundred-handed [Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.]
adjective:  Alternative form of Hundred-handed [Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.]

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