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Definition of Discarding

1. discard [v] - See also: discard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discarding

Literary usage of Discarding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"These are discarding and forcing. discarding. When a player cannot follow suit, and does not wish to trump, his safest play is to discard whatever seems of ..."

2. Mothers and Children by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1914)
"discarding THE PRETENSE OF OMNISCIENCE IN addition to the use of insight, we can strengthen that bridge in another manner by discarding from among our ..."

3. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"discarding. When you cannot follow suit, you should II. ... You weaken a suit by discarding from it, and lessen the number of long cards you might otherwise ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The walls of some of these were twenty-four feet thick and thirty feet high. The United States Government respects the Moro custom of discarding the hat, ..."

5. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"discarding. If the elder hand is not content with the cards dealt to him, ... If both parties agree, discarding may go on as long as there are cards ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... and discarding several symbolical ceremonies which had gathered around and sometimes obscured the earlier and necessary forms. In all the early rites, ..."

7. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"No man can rise from ignorance to anything deserving to be called a complete grasp of any considerable branch of science, without receiving and discarding ..."

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