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Definition of Elder hand
1. Noun. The card player on the dealer's left.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elder Hand
Literary usage of Elder hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If the elder hand scores, in hand and play, thirty or more, before the younger
... When discarding, elder hand, your main object is to plan an attack. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The elder hand (non-dealer) may exchange fire or any less number. ... If the
elder hand leaves any cards, the younger may exchange as many as remain in the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"^The elder hand leads any card he pleases; the younger plays to it. ... elder hand
when he leads his first card does not prevent his bring ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1862)
"The upper five arc supposed to belong to the elder hand, the lower three to the
... The elder hand has then the privilege of discarding any number of cards ..."
5. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"It the elder hand takes in one of the three cards which belong to the younger hand,
... The elder hand is obliged to lay nut one card. 9. If the elder hand, ..."
6. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"If the elder hand has left any of his cards, the younger hand may take all that
remain in the stock, discarding an equal number. Thus, if the elder hand has ..."
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