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单词 lone hand
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lone hand
b. to play, hold a lone hand: in Quadrille and Euchre, to play against all the other players, or against the opposite side without help from one's own. Hence lone hand, lone player are used = a person playing such a game.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > live, act, or work alone [verb (intransitive)]
to play, hold a lone hand1799
lone wolf1909
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > person > who does something alone
lone hand1799
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > ombre and quadrille > play at quadrille [verb (intransitive)] > play lone hand
to play, hold a lone hand1799
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > euchre > [verb (intransitive)] > actions in euchre
to play, hold a lone hand1799
assist1878
1799 J. West Tale of Times I. 217 Sir Simon..was remarkably partial to holding a lone-hand [at quadrille].
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 37 [Quadrille.] When playing against a lone hand, never lead a king, unless you have the queen.
1886 Euchre: how to play it 41 Suppose a player, being four, and his adversaries nothing, plays a lone hand and makes his five tricks.
1886 Euchre: how to play it 108 Lone Hand, a hand so strong in trumps alone, or in trumps, guarded by high cards of a lay suit, that it will probably win five tricks if its holder plays alone. Lone player, the one playing without his partner.
figurative.1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory xv. 122 In fact, in pretty nearly all his plays he had a ‘lone hand’.1888 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 118 A lone-hand raid of the rearmost cart.1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan i. 271 I wasn't playing a lone hand in that game, and so I just allowed I wouldn't marry that girl just then.1901 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 863 I am going to play a lone-hand, and intend being my own Commandant and Veldt Cornet and everything else.1916 Brit. Dominions Year Bk. 1917 243 Lone-hand raids on Constantinople.1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 439 This is a lonehand fight.
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