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Definition of Overtricks
1. overtrick [n] - See also: overtrick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtricks
Literary usage of Overtricks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whist Table: A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game by "Cavendish," C by Portland, Cavendish, Abraham S. Wilks (1894)
"Should a revoke be made at a table where double overtricks are paid for slams,
and the exaction of the penalty thereby increases the score of the offender's ..."
2. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"If the adversaries of the caller declare to pay, before playing to the second
trick, they can save nothing but possible overtricks The pool goes with every ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... to the value of the winner's bid and the overtricks he has «red. There are
regular tables of payments. In America over- tricks art not usually paid for. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Payments arc made by each loser according to the value of the winner's bid and
the overtricks he has scored. There are regular tables of payments. ..."
5. Wandering Jew Card Game. by Robert D. Manning (1986)
"... of a preferred suit; and, by overtricks. About the only thing which it does
not include is a positive no trump bid, whose first appearance is traced by ..."
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