1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 249 The latter is entitled to shuffle also before cutting, and the dealer to re-shuffle afresh, or to present the pack for the cut without re-shuffle, or to call for fresh cards.

1968 J. Rubens Win at Poker App. 204 This rule is meaningless and may cause confusion when a short pack (required by a reshuffle of discards..) is being dealt.

2002 M. Lugo How to play Better Dominoes ii. 10 If a player has drawn five or more doubles in his hand he is given the option of showing them and asking for a reshuffle of the tiles.

1897 Daily News 19 July 3/1 Queensland has been content with only seventeen shuffles or re-shuffles.

1922 L. Woolf Election Addr. in Downhill all Way (1967) i. 37 I feel that this is no time for a mere reshuffle of the ancient Conservative and Liberal Pack and for entrusting power to one or other of the two parties whose political principles and practice are directly responsible for the disastrous situation in which the country finds itself today.

1931 A. L. Rowse Politics & Younger Generation x. 272 It [sc. the Tyrol] should be returned to Austria..at the first reshuffle in Europe.

1940 H. Nicolson Diary 3 Apr. (1967) 65 We get over the telephone the final text of the Government reshuffle.

1947 New Secondary Education (Min. of Educ.) 10 Such reorganisation as could be effected in existing buildings by a ‘reshuffle’ of the children.

1955 Daily Express 14 Oct. 1/5 (caption) I do wish the P.M. would make up his mind about the Cabinet reshuffle.

1976 Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 17/2 Moore went off injured..and it took them a good quarter of an hour to adjust to the enforced reshuffle.

2005 D. S. Bell F. Mitterrand vi. 109 Prime Minister Fabius's new government was more than a reshuffle; it was a makeover.

1802 A. Morrice tr. P.-J. B. de Villemert Friend of Women iii. 36 They are seen in the finest season of the year; and even in the country, careless of its charms, eagerly employed in shuffling and re-shuffling the cards even till night.

1829 Hoyle's Games Improved 146 The cards must be reshuffled.

1844 J. D. Haas tr. F. Kohlrausch Hist. Germany xv. 337 A sort of mirror in which is reflected the instability of the political relations of these states, which..again dissolved like an empty vapour, as soon as the cards of fortune were reshuffled.

1875 ‘Cavendish’ Round Games at Cards 8 If a card is exposed in cutting,..the pack must be re-shuffled.

1934 J. B. Rhine Extra-sensory Perception ix. 115 After each five the cards would be returned to the pack and reshuffled for the next five calls.

1979 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (rev. ed.) vi. 103 When both rounds are finished, all the dominoes are reshuffled and stacked in two piles of sixteen dominoes each.

1979 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (rev. ed.) vi. 161 If the wall is broken in the wrong place, or the tiles are drawn in the wrong order, the tiles should be reshuffled and a fresh start made.

2005 R. M. Murray & N. Kujundzic Crit. Refl. v. xi. 322 If we replace the first card we've drawn and reshuffle the deck, we determine the odds of pulling an ace from a deck of cards in two tries by the formula for a disjunct of mutually exclusive events.

1847 Banker's Mag. Apr. 6 When manager A dies, or retires, manager B takes his place, making room for C, who is replaced by D, and so downwards, until your entire managerial force is re-shuffled, and you start a new game with fresh hands.]

1862 Fraser's Mag. May 562/1 The days are coming on when parties may be again reshuffled, and when the calls for military economy are likely to be made by the whole Liberal party.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 1/2 You just defeat the Ministry, reshuffle the Portfolios, find a new head.

1920 C. Whibley Literary Portraits (ed. 2) 5 So the principles of right and wrong were reshuffled.

1948 Billboard 18 Dec. 5/1 The Columbia Broadcasting System is reshuffling its Saturday night shows.

1973 A. Mann Tiara iii. 18 The London correspondent of Messaggero thought the British Cabinet would be reshuffled.

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 2 Dec. c7/4 (heading) Public Service Company of New Mexico is reshuffling vice presidents.

2005 D. N. Posner Inst. & Ethnic Politics in Afr. ii. iv. 98 Whenever a new cabinet is announced or an old one is reshuffled, newspaper columns and letters to the editor focus..on the number of positions won by each ethnic group.