cribbage
a card game for two or sometimes three or four players, a characteristic feature of which is the crib, and in which the object is to make counting combinations for points that are scored on a cribbage board.
Origin of cribbage
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How to use cribbage in a sentence
They included both William Davenant, a godson of Shakespeare and Sir John Suckling, the inventor of the card game cribbage.
Even the cribbage game under the barber shop was suspended, and the cribbage game was an institution.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kellandcribbage played with cards and a board is said to be essentially an English game.
Chats on Household Curios | Fred W. BurgessAfter the children had gone to bed, she played cribbage with Mrs. Merlin while Kurt read the papers.
Penny of Top Hill Trail | Belle Kanaris ManiatesNow, it must be confessed that cribbage was a game of which Mrs. Nuttall was profoundly ignorant.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
No horses stamping about, no stable; but pictures on the walls, and men playing cribbage or reading, and nobody in a hurry.
Careers of Danger and Daring | Cleveland Moffett
British Dictionary definitions for cribbage
/ (ˈkrɪbɪdʒ) /
a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents: Often shortened to: crib
Origin of cribbage
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