cross-ruffn.
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1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. A4 As thus I stood looking on them playing at cros-ruffe, one was taken reuoking.
1693 W. Winstanley Poor Robin sig. B8 And Men at Cards spend many idle hours, At Loadum, Whisk, Cross-ruff, Put, and All-fours.
2. Whist. (See quot. 1862.) Also in Bridge.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > [noun] > actions or tactics > ruff or ruffing
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1862 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (1870) 28 A Cross-ruff (saw or see~saw) is the alternate trumping by partners of different suits, each leading the suit in which the other renounces.
1885 R. A. Proctor How to play Whist vii. 76 More tricks are usually gained by the cross ruff than the opponents can afterwards make out of their suits.
1905 R. F. Foster Compl. Bridge 226 Do not let go of the lead until you have made all your trumps separately by the cross ruff on the red suits.
1907 C. S. Street Good Bridge vii. 103 The careless player exhilarated by the success of his devastating cross-ruff continues it once too often.
1926 M. C. Work Auction Bridge Compl. ii. ii. 330 The Declarer who forces his long trump hand (except to obtain an entry in a cross ruff) is generally playing the game of the adversary.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
cross-ruffv.
intransitive. To play a cross-ruff. Also transitive, to play (a hand) using a cross-ruff.
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cross-ruff1958
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > ruff
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cross-ruff1958
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > ruff
cross-ruff1958
1958 Listener 4 Dec. 965/2 We cannot cross-ruff our way to a high level contract.
Derivatives
cross-ruffing n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > ruff or ruffing
cross-ruff1862
grand coup1864
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under-ruff1945
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > [noun] > actions or tactics > ruff or ruffing
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cross-ruff1862
grand coup1864
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1905 R. F. Foster Compl. Bridge 226 Having no established suit..he plays to make his trumps separately by cross ruffing.
1918 R. F. Foster On Auction ii. 354 Cross-ruffing an entire hand.
1934 L. H. Watson Play at Contract Bridge xvi. 149 If you are going to play a hand by cross-ruffing, you must follow it through.
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