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



  1. : 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,"
 
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