skat

[ skaht, skat ]

noun

a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.

Origin of skat

1860–65; <German skat<Italian scarto, derivative of scartare to discard, equivalent to s-ex-¹ + -cartare, derivative of cartacard¹

Words Nearby skat

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How to use skat in a sentence

"We expect you on Wednesday for skat," said Mrs. Freudenthal.
Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch | Ulrich Frank
Even the skat players gave their attention for a few moments at a time.
Atlantis | Gerhart Hauptmann
In their corner the skat players were sitting over their cards.
Atlantis | Gerhart Hauptmann
skat, skat, n. a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet, and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various
And in that case all would be lost; but those skat players, it seemed to him, would go on playing undisturbed.
Atlantis | Gerhart Hauptmann

British Dictionary definitions for skat

skat

/ (skæt) /

noun

a three-handed card game using 32 cards, popular in German-speaking communities

Origin of skat

C19: from German, from Italian scarto played cards, from scartare to discard, from s- ex- 1 + carta, from Latin charta card 1

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