单词 | penultimate card |
释义 | > as lemmaspenultimate card 4. Cards. The lowest card but one of a suit. Also attributive in penultimate card. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game sequent1620 lead1742 maker1753 stop1808 strong card1839 king card1850 brisque1870 honour card1876 penultimate1876 guard1885 thirteener1891 wild card1940 1876 A. Campbell-Walker Correct Card Gloss. p. xiii Penultimate, the, beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards. 1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 605/2 I furnished to the Field a letter..in which the penultimate was recommended as the proper lead after quitting the head of the suit, in order to show number. 1929 Times 30 Oct. 17/5 By degrees was evolved the practice of playing the ‘penultimate card of five’ and the ‘antepenultimate of six’. 2003 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 12 Jan. 45 Partner cashed her spades, and when I discarded the heart nine on the penultimate and the diamond 10 on the last, got the message and switched to the queen of diamonds. < as lemmas |
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