Hoyle
[hɒɪl]
Definition
(noun.) English writer on card games (1672-1769).
(noun.) an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001).
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Examples
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And, he continued pragmatically, as t' maister's comed, and as he'll enter through this hoyle, I _con_sidered it desirable to step in and let ye know. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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