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Definition of Nine-spot
1. Noun. One of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nine-spot
Literary usage of Nine-spot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"nine-spot. ONLY A nine-spot, phr. (American).—Indifferent ; of small account.
[The nine at cards rarely counts for a trick]. ..."
2. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"We will suppose the Ten of Hearts to be turned, and the dealer holds the King
and right Bower with the Ace and nine-spot of Clubs and King of Diamonds : the ..."
3. Cotton Trade Guide and Student's Manual: A Text-book for the American Trade by Thomas Southworth Miller (1915)
"Under the United States Cotton Futures Act, recently passed by Congress, nine
Spot Markets are designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as those taken for ..."
4. The Fine Points of Auction Bridge by Florence Irwin (1912)
"Holding no decent suit, lead a nine-spot as a signal of distress. The nine is
always a marked card; in a declared trump, it is always a singleton or a ..."
5. Nullo Auction by Florence Irwin (1914)
"He must do this in order to unblock for his own nine-spot later in the hand, when
he wants to finesse the diamonds from Dummy and through B. If Dummy ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"40 King and queen of a suit not trumps (marriage) count 20 nine-spot of tramps
counts ID The relative value of the cards is: Ace counts for 11 points, ..."
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