Cribbage
WordNet
noun
(1) A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
WiktionaryText
Noun
- : A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the (cribbage board) used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
Quotations
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114
- How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31
- "No one remembers cribbage now,"