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Definition of All fours
1. Noun. Card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game.
Generic synonyms: Card Game, Cards
Specialized synonyms: Cinch, Auction Pitch, Pitch, Old Sledge, Seven-up
Definition of All fours
1. Noun. The four legs of a quadruped. ¹
2. Noun. The four limbs of a primate. ¹
3. Noun. A card game similar to whist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All Fours
Literary usage of All fours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Then I bound my leg up as well as I could, and crawled on all fours with the
poniard in my ... I meanwhile made the best way I could on all fours toward the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"On some of the Uses of the Knees and Elbows (all fours; a la vache; quadrupedal ?)
Position. By FA BURRALL, MD, of New York. EVERY now and then critical ..."
3. Educating by Story-telling: Showing the Value of Story-telling as an by Katherine Dunlap Cather (1918)
"WHY GRIZZLY BEAR GOES ON all fours A SHASTA LEGEND. ADAPTED FROM BANCROFT (Indian
Folk Tale — Geography — Ethics) Ages ago, before there were any mountains ..."
4. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"Others again, as in the accompanying representation, make a vow to crawl on
all-fours, with a saddle on their backs and bridle in their mouths, ..."
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