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Definition of Overtrump
1. Verb. Play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick.
Definition of Overtrump
1. Verb. (cards)To play a higher trump card than the previous one in a trick ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtrump
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtrump
Literary usage of Overtrump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bridge Whist: Its Whys and Wherefores: A Progressive and Clear Method of by C. J. Melrose (1901)
"Refusing to overtrump. If, in the conditions given in the preceding paragraph,
instead of you having the lead, your partner led a card ..."
2. Modern Scientific Whist: The Principles of the Modern Game Analyzed and by C. D. P. Hamilton (1894)
"It is very often best to refuse to overtrump your adversary early in the hand
when you have just four trumps and a strong hand besides. ..."
3. The Whist Reference Book: Wherein Information is Presented Concerning the by William Mill Butler (1898)
"overtrump.—To trump over; to cover a trump with a higher trump. It is important
to know when to overtrump and when to let the adversary have the trick. ..."
4. Bridge Abridged: A Comprehensive and Concise Statement of the Maxims, Rules by Annie Blanche Shelby (1906)
"Cases occasionally arise, however, where to overtrump would involve the loss of
one or more tricks. At the eleventh trick, if we hold best and fourth best ..."
5. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"But there is one case in which it is never right to overtrump, viz., when three
cards remain in each hand, and one player holds the second and third best ..."
6. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1879)
"Cases often happen where it is not advisable to overtrump. Most of these depend
on the fall of the cards and on inferences from the, play (see Hands XXI, ..."
7. Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and by Westminster Chess Club, London (1876)
"Very good, the point of the hand, refusing to overtrump. It appears to me, however,
... A third illustration of refusing to overtrump " from actual playing. ..."
8. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained by Henry] [Jones (1896)
"REFUSING TO overtrump Cases often happen where it is not advisable to ...
But there is one case in which it is never right to overtrump, viz., ..."
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