Cribbage
['krɪbɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two.
Typist: Stanley--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
Checker: Vivian
Definition
n. a game at cards played by two three or four persons so called from crib the name given to certain cards laid aside from his hand by each player and which belong to the dealer.—n. Cribb′age-board a board with holes for keeping by means of pegs the score at cribbage.
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Examples
- A game at cribbage would be far better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She had taken the pains to learn, and used to play cribbage with this gentleman on the nights when he did not go to his club. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the lower window are seen two bagmen playing apparently at the game of cribbage, over which they yawn much. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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