Hoyle

Hoyle (hoil)

A reference book of rules for card games and other indoor games.

Idiom:

according to Hoyle

In accord with the prescribed rules or regulations.

[After Edmond Hoyle (1672?-1769), British writer on games.]

Hoyle [hɔɪl]

(Group Games / Games, other than specified) an authoritative book of rules for card games

[after Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769), English authority on games, its compiler]

Hoyle²

(Biographies / Hoyle, Sir Fred (1915-2001) M, English, SCIENCE: astronomer, WRITING: writer) Sir Fred. 1915-2001, English astronomer and writer: his books include The Nature of the Universe (1950) and Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), and science-fiction writings

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Noun	1.	Hoyle - an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001) Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle
	2.	Hoyle - English writer on card games (1672-1769) Edmond Hoyle

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I happened to come home several hours before my usual time, when I found four gentlemen of the cloth at whist by my fire;--and my Hoyle, sir--my best Hoyle, which cost me a guinea, lying open on the table, with a quantity of porter spilt on one of the most material leaves of the whole book.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and, so far, the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist; while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the mere mechanism of the game) are sufficiently and generally comprehensible.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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