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Definition of Euchre
1. Noun. A card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand.
Definition of Euchre
1. n. A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.
2. v. t. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
Definition of Euchre
1. Noun. (card games) A game played with a reduced deck of 24 cards. ¹
2. Verb. To deceive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Euchre
1. to prevent from winning three tricks in euchre (a card game) [v -CHRED, -CHRING, -CHRES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euchre
Literary usage of Euchre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"In two-handed euchre the player may stand upon a slight hand, but to stand or
order up at this game he must have a strong hand, inasmuch as he has two hands ..."
2. A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming by Frederic Jessel (1905)
"euchre and how to Play it. 34 pp. 16mo. The US Playing Card Co., ... euchre.—Standard
Guide to Progressive euchre, also Established Rules of Modern euchre. ..."
3. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"Suppose C makes a march, 3 points, which puts him on a level with A. On A's deal
it is C's game to euchre him, but B must let A make his point ; so that ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"In 4-handed euchre, in which the players sitting opposite to each other are
partners, as in whist, ... The game of euchre is peculiar to the United States, ..."
5. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"... euchre [yu'-ker], game, VI. 769. EU'CLID, ancient geometer, VI. 769. Device of
reasoning in geometry introduced by him, VII. ..."
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