long card
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of long card
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In that game, a player scratches two winning numbers at the top of an 8-inch long card, Hamlin said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2015
South returned a heart, ducked to North's queen, and North cleared the heart suit leaving herself with the long card.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2011
There are fewer than 1,000 players seated at the long card tables lined up diagonally across the concrete floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dispose these cards in such manner that each of the six different cards shall follow each other, and let the last of each suite be a long card.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
Cut the cards several times, so that a long card be always at bottom.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
