| 单词 | short suit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort suit short suit n. Cards a suit of which a player has few cards; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards cater-trey?a1500 mournival1530 sequence1575 pair royal1608 septieme1651 tierce1659 pair1674 purtaunte1688 quart major1718 matrimonya1743 queen-suit1744 quart1746 prial1776 flux1798 fredon1798 tricon1798 intrigue1830 straight1841 marriage1861 under-sequence1863 straight five1864 double pair-royal?1870 run?1870 short suit1876 four1883 fourchette1885 meld1887 doubleton1906 canasta1948 1876 A. Campbell-Walker Correct Card Gloss. p. xiii Short suit, a suit of three or less than three cards. 1884 ‘Cavendish’ Laws & Princ. Whist (ed. 14) 133 Treating long suits like short ones. 1893 ‘L. Hoffmann’ tr. A. Hertefeld Game of Skat 8 As..a suit consists of seven cards only, three or more constitute a long suit; and two or less a short suit. 1910 W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 91 The original English method, now known as the Short-suit Convention. 1910 W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 93 On the other hand the short-suit doubler is by no means certain to get his desired suit led to him. 1931 E. Culbertson Contract Bridge at Glance 43 With an Ace, a King, or honours not in sequence in one or two suits, and a worthless doubleton or a singleton in the third suit, lead the short suit. 1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 499/1 The short-suit lead is also indicated when there is a bidding inference that this is partner's suit. < as lemmas |
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