单词 | game hole |
释义 | > as lemmasgame hole game hole n. a hole on a cribbage board which represents the score a player must achieve to win a game; cf. end-hole n. at end n. Compounds 2 (in quot. 1814 figurative). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > board > last hole game hole1814 1814 Morning Post 20 Dec. The game towards the end had been wretchedly play'd..Johanna determin'd to put..Herself as a Peg in the Grave, her Game-hole. 1837 G. Walker Cribbage Player's Text-bk. 97 Victory is proclaimed by the conqueror's attaining the sixty-first, or game hole. 1890 ‘Berkeley’ Bézique & Cribbage (1891) 30 A cribbage board..has..sixty holes and two game-holes. 1995 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. The [cribbage] board comprises 60 holes in two rows of 30 for each player, plus a game hole for each. < as lemmas |
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