单词 | to make a pool |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (up) a pool a. A game, hand, or round in which there is a collective stake to be won. to make (up) a pool: to form or make up the party or requisite number of players for such a game. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > game or match partie1565 partyc1580 set1595 pool1693 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. 34 What say you to a Pooile at Comet, At my House? 1696 G. G. Granville She-gallants iii. i. 45 Compose your self enough to go in and Play a Pool with us. 1732 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 346 I played two pools at commerce. 1779 F. Burney Let. ?23 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. Fanny Burney (1994) 252 I won 1s6d at Back gammon!—in a pool with Mrs. Thrale & Sir Philip Jennings Clerke! 1801 Sporting Mag. 18 21 Our party was put off till the Monday, when we played six pools. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xiv. 149 She..had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening. View more context for this quotation 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. ix. 70 I dare say the resolute lady sate down with her female friends to a pool of cards and a dish of coffee. 1923 J. Buchan Midwinter (1924) ii. 57 A pool was made at commerce, in which all joined. < as lemmas |
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