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Definition of Penuchle
1. Noun. A card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist.
Definition of Penuchle
1. n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
Definition of Penuchle
1. Noun. (alternative form of pinochle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Penuchle
1. pinochle [n -S] - See also: pinochle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penuchle
Literary usage of Penuchle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"penuchle (pe'näk-'l), or Pin'ode, game of cards played by two, three, or four
persons with ... Four-handed penuchle is usually played as a game of partners. ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"penuchle, pe'nuk-1, or Pinocle, a game of cards very popular among German-Americans.
... Four-handed penuchle is usually played two against two as partners, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This is the schedule of "points": PINOCLE, or penuchle, a game of Eight aces
count 1000 Eight kings count 800 Eight queens count 60O Eight jacks count 400 ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"one's nights, instead of being spent under her calm star-lit aisles, are devoted
to penuchle parties indoors. Our days, since the camp circle has been ..."
5. A Bibliography of Card-games and of the History of Playing Cards by Norton Townshend Horr (1892)
"... containing clear and comprehensive Directions for playing the Games of Whist,
Euchre, Napoleon, Cribbage, Bezique, Sixty-six, penuchle, Cassino, ..."
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