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Definition of Endplay
1. Noun. (bridge) A tactical play in which a defender is put on lead at a strategic moment, and then has to make a play that loses one or more tricks ¹
2. Verb. (bridge) To make an endplay ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Endplay
1. to force (an opponent in bridge) to lead [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endplay
Literary usage of Endplay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steam Engine Troubles, a Practical Treatise for the Engineer, Telling how to by Hugo Hamkens (1919)
"endplay of valves. Testing governor by hand. WITH the eccentrics and straps lined
up, eccentric roc's connected to the straps and rocker arms and the valve- ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"... by the constant endplay readily afford a friction of a fraction of from one
per cent to one and one-half per cent, with any of the methods of feeding ..."
3. Principles of Locomotive Operation and Train Control by Arthur Julius Wood (1915)
"1. Surfacing of track in horizontal plane. 2. Alignment of track. 3. Rigidity of
track, especially at joints. 4. Gage of track or endplay ..."
4. Miscellaneous Tests of Electric Car Equipment by Eugene Chilton Parham, John Cutler Shedd (1910)
"During the test the machine is watched for hot bearings, sparking, bent armature
shaft, loose or eccentric commutator, open-circuit, short-circuit, endplay ..."
5. Electrical Engineering for Electric Light Artisans and Students: (embracing by William Slingo, Arthur Brooker (1895)
"... 428 Battersea, 4'23 commutation for, 417 - - endplay in flat ring, 423 — field
of force in, 417 drum armatures for, 428 lamination of armature core, ..."
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