rule of eleven


nounBridge, Whist.
  1. the rule that when a player leads their fourth-highest card in any suit, its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.

Origin of rule of eleven

1
First recorded in 1810–20

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