'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]
Words containing 'All fours'
- Four,
- on all fours,
- Four Corners,
- Four Corners, OR,
- Four Oaks,
- To go all fours,
- four flush,
- four horsemen,
- four hundred,
- four times,
- four-four time,
- petit four,
- plus fours,
- Estoile of four points,
- Four Bears Village,
- Four Corners, MT,
- Four Corners, TX,
- Four Mile Road,
- Four Oaks, NC,
- Four-cornered,
- Four-cycle,
- Four-in-hand,
- Four-poster,
- Four-way,
- Four-wheeled,
- Four-wheeler,
- Lakes of the Four Seasons,
- Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN,
- Seventy-four,
- Space of four dimensions,
- Village of Four Seasons,
- coach-and-four,
- eighty-four,
- fifty-four,
- forty-four,
- four o'clock,
- four-dimensional,
- four-flusher,
- four-fold,
- four-footed,
- four-hitter,
- four-hundredth,
- four-lane,
- four-lobed,
- four-membered,
- four-needled,
- four-party,
- four-petaled,
- four-petalled,
- four-ply,
- four-pounder,
- four-pronged,
- four-sided,
- four-spot,
- four-wheel,
- ninety-four,
- sixty-four,
- thirty-four,
- twenty-four,
- two-by-four,
- Four Bears Village, ND,
- Four Mile Road, AK,
- Four-o'clock,
- Four-way cock,
- Four-way stop,
- Village of Four Seasons, MO,
- california four o'clock,
- colorado four o'clock,
- desert four o'clock,
- four-card monte,
- four-centered arch,
- four-footed butterfly,
- four-letter word,
- four-minute man,
- four-part harmony,
- four-stroke engine,
- four-tailed bandage,
- four-wheel drive,
- four-year-old,
- mountain four o'clock,
- sweet four o'clock,
- trailing four o'clock,
- twenty-four hours,
- twenty-four-seven,
- common four-o'clock,
- four-lined leaf bug,
- four-lined plant bug,
- four-o'clock family,
- four-wing flying fish,
- twenty-four hour period,
- four-letter anglo-saxon word,
- four-stroke internal-combustion engine