Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of plays in games of the whist family in which partnership hands alternately trump suits led by the other partner.
- intransitive verb To perform a crossruff or a series of crossruffs.
- intransitive verb To trump (one's partner's lead or a lead from the dummy) in alternating plays.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In whist, a double ruff; a see-saw (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Whist) The play in bridge or whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also
seesaw .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun bridge A
play in whichtricks are taken by taking alternateruffs in eachhand - verb To execute a crossruff
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb trump alternately in two hands
Etymologies
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Examples
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He can cash the top diamonds and clubs and start a crossruff.
Bridge 2010
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At today's slam South opted to try for a crossruff.
Bridge 2010
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So guilt would have been irrational as I enjoyed the chef's artful crossruff of textures -- the chewy puffin playing against the more brittle sunchoke and hazelnuts, with an overall sea-saltiness prevailing amid the Gallic refinement of the sauce.
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“Unusual type of crossruff with a singleton trump in dummy,” remarked Peregrine the Penguin.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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Without another word of abuse, he proceeded to reel off six more tricks on a crossruff.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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Without another word of abuse, he proceeded to reel off six more tricks on a crossruff.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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“Unusual type of crossruff with a singleton trump in dummy,” remarked Peregrine the Penguin.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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Without another word of abuse, he proceeded to reel off six more tricks on a crossruff.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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“Unusual type of crossruff with a singleton trump in dummy,” remarked Peregrine the Penguin.
VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB VICTOR MOLLO 1979
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When West showed out, discarding a spade, declarer set about a crossruff - one trick too late.
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