'All fours' definitions:

Definition of 'all fours'

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noun
Card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game [syn: all fours, high-low-jack]

Definition of 'All fours'

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  • Four \Four\, n.
  • 1. The sum of four units; four units or objects. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four. [1913 Webster]
  • All fours. See All fours, in the Vocabulary. Fourb

Definition of 'all fours'

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  • High \High\, n.
  • 1. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. People of rank or high station; as, high and low. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Card Playing) The highest card dealt or drawn. [1913 Webster]
  • High, low, jack, and the game, a game at cards; -- also called all fours, old sledge, and seven up.
  • In high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  • On high, aloft; above. [1913 Webster]
  • The dayspring from on high hath visited us. --Luke i. 78.
  • The Most High, the Supreme Being; God. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'all fours'

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  • Seven-up \Sev"en-up`\, n. The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'all fours'

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  • Sledge \Sledge\ (sl[e^]j), n. [Perhaps from sleds, pl. of sled, confused with sledge a hammer. See Sled, n.]
  • 1. A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution. [Eng.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A sleigh. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and {all fours}. [1913 Webster]