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all fours

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all fours
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
Any of several card games resembling whist and in which points are scored in four ways: for the high trump, the low trump, the jack of trumps, and the game.
all fours
n
1. both the arms and legs of a person or all the legs of a quadruped (esp in the phrase on all fours)
2. (Group Games / Card Games) another name for seven-up
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Noun1.all fours - card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
high-low-jack
card game, cards - a game played with playing cards
cinch - a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps
auction pitch, pitch - an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
old sledge, seven-up - a form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game


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The Milltown trip had not been without its tragic consequences of a small sort; for the next week Minnie Smellie's mother told Miranda Sawyer that she'd better look after Rebecca, for she was given to "swearing and profane language;" that she had been heard saying something dreadful that very afternoon, saying it before Emma Jane and Living Perkins, who only laughed and got down on all fours and chased her.
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But this time I noticed that, when picking himself up, he remained longer than usual on all fours, baring his big teeth over his shoulder and glaring upwards at his uncle with a new sort of hate in his round, yellow eyes.
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Now, therefore, send the Christian dog on all fours, and barefoot, into the holy place to mend the clock, and let him go as an ass
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