Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old game at cards, of which there is no extant description.

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Examples

  • And when Tarwater sold his holdings to the Bowdie interests for a sheer half-million and faced for California, he rode a mule over a new-cut trail, with convenient road houses along the way, clear to the steamboat landing at Fort Yukon.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Silver weirs, new-cut grass, wave on the beach, hard gem

    Archive 2006-01-01 Arevanye 2006

  • Seventy-something Reitherman would hop up from the desk as if he'd spent a couple of minutes day-dreaming and stroll out the door for home as fresh as a new-cut rose.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Steve Hulett 2006

  • Flowers, and new-cut hay, a fresh green scent of water utterly unlike the smelly old Thames, wood smoke and things she couldn't even begin to identify.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • I felt very happy — and no wonder; the morning was beautiful, the birds sang merrily, and a sweet smell proceeded from the new-cut hay in the fields, and I was bound for Wales.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Neither in his voiceless cabin, fragrant with planks of new-cut pine, nor along the lake, nor in the sunset clouds which presently eddied behind the lavender-misted mountains, could Babbitt find the spirit of Paul as a reassuring presence.

    Babbit 2004

  • Of course, it also carried the acrid scent of new-cut wood that had never been near Earth.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Touching my hand with the bundle of new-cut quills, he said: — “Dites donc, petite soeur — speak frankly — what have you thought of me during the last two days?”

    Villette 2003

  • The passage to the bathing-pool was like a green tunnel, mimosa bushes crowding inward to filter the light, pungent sap weeping from the new-cut branches.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • He saw Castle Keep then, rearing up on the rock, its stones magically bright and new-cut as they were when it was first built.

    The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

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  • An old game at cards, of which there is no extant description.

    (Century Dictionary)

    April 18, 2011

  • See loadum and primero.

    April 19, 2011