| 单词 | younger hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyounger hand younger hand n. Cards the second person to play or bid in a two-player game (opposed to elder hand n. at elder adj. 4); (also) = youngest hand n. at youngest adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-player > first, last, etc., player eldest hand1599 younger hand1669 youngest hand1674 leader1677 fourth1803 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. 41 Zounds, the Rogue has a Quint-Major, and three Aces younger hand. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To be the younger hand (at play), être dernier en carte, en Termes de jeu. 1744 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Piquet iii. 28 If the younger-hand has one Ace dealt him, what are the Odds of his taking in one or two of the three remaining Aces? 1774 W. Hooper Rational Recreations I. xl. 120 If, on the contrary, he choose the younger hand, you discard the knave, ten, and eight of spades, with the seven and eight of diamonds. 1830 Bell's Life in London 10 Oct. Two players at Piquet—the elder hand calls his point at 50, which the younger hand declares to be good. 1889 ‘Cavendish’ Piquet (ed. 6) 132 The Show, elder hand (when small cards are counted in play), is twenty-eight; younger hand is fourteen. That is, it is about an even chance the elder hand will score twenty-eight or more, and that the younger hand will score fourteen or more. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 638/1 A pique can only be made by the elder hand, as the one he reckons in play when he leads his first card counts before points subsequently made in play by the younger hand. 2005 B. Rigal Card Games for Dummies (ed. 2) i. i. 12 The younger hand is the player to the dealer's right. < as lemmas |
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