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Definition of Cribbage
1. Noun. A card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two.
Definition of Cribbage
1. n. A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
Definition of Cribbage
1. Noun. (card games) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cribbage
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbage
Literary usage of Cribbage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"The game of Three-handed cribbage is not often practiced. ... Three-handed cribbage
is subject to the same laws as the other varieties of the game. ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"FLUSH, a term at primero, when the carde were of a suit ; also at cribbage. ...
There was nothing silly in it [whist], like the nob in cribbage—nuthing ..."
3. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, William Maltby (1856)
"Moore has now taken to an amusement which is very well suited to the fifth act
of life;—he plays cribbage every night with Mrs. Moore. ..."
4. A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies: And to Every Department by Samuel Warren (1845)
"... then agreed with, and promised the said defendant, to play at a certain game,
that is to say, at a certain game called cribbage, with the said defendant ..."
5. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... The Mendips * are expected to-morrow; so we shall be as lively as soups, and
removes, and entres and pools at cribbage set to ..."
6. An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling: Designed Especially as a by Jonathan Harrington Green (1845)
"cribbage. he had been playing, retired after he left the table, ... cribbage.
This game is quite a scientific one, and requires considerable study and ..."
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