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1 trumping -- rank: 1000

trumping definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: (card games ... with a trump when unable to follow suit [syn: ruff, trumping] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Trump Trump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To play a trump card when one of another suit ...

2 Ruff -- rank: 535

... 8. At cards, the act of winning the trick by trumping the cards of another suit. RUFF, v.t. 1. To ... with a trump when unable to follow suit [syn: ruff, trumping] v 1: play a trump [syn: trump, ruff] Merriam Webster ... or played) IV. noun Date: circa 1828 the act of trumping Oxford Reference Dictionary 1. n. 1 a projecting starched frill ... and the predecessor of it. --Nares. (b) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led ...

3 Trump -- rank: 364

... v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To play a trump card when one of another suit ... to trump up a charge. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (trumps, trumping, trumped) 1. In a game of cards, trumps is the ...

4 Trumped -- rank: 230

... v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To play a trump card when one of another suit ...

5 Established suit -- rank: 230

... suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.

6 cross-ruff -- rank: 230

... Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & v. Bridge etc. --n. the alternate trumping of partners' leads. --v.intr. play in this way.