Cards. In full card of re-entry: (in a trick-taking game, esp. whist or bridge) a card which wins a trick and thus enables a player to regain the…

Bridge and Whist. A card that cannot be beaten unless it is trumped.

Cards. In whist or bridge: The only card of a suit in a hand. Also attributive.

Cards. In a trick-taking game, esp. bridge: an opportunity to transfer the lead to oneself, one's partner, or one's dummy; a card providing such an…

Whist and Bridge. A card which will enable its holder to win a trick in a given suit at a desired point in the play.

Something that causes to cease or brings to a stand. Bridge. A card of such value that it can reasonably be counted on, in conjunction with other…

Cards. Cf. raise, v.1 34a. In Bridge: a card or combination of cards which justifies the increase by a player of his or her partner's bid. rare.

Contract Bridge. A low card from a suit from which four or more cards are held or have been played.

Bridge. A losing card.

In the analysis of games of Bridge x represents a card between 2 and 9, inclusive.

Bridge. A minor suit; (also) a card of a minor suit.

Bridge. (a) Either of the two highest cards of a suit; (b) the best score made in the play of a particular hand.

(a) a door or other entranceway at the side of a building (in quot. 1680 figurative); (also) a porch, lobby, etc., next to such an entranceway; (b) B…

a card exposed illegally which must be left face up until it can be legally played or picked up.

Bridge. Short for master card, n. 1.