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Hoyle
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Hoyle  (hoil)
n.
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]
n
(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
n
(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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Noun1.Hoyle - an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
2.Hoyle - English writer on card games (1672-1769)


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