Hypertext Webster Gateway: "euchre"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Euchre \Eu"chre\, n. [Perh. from F. ['e]cart['e].]
A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four
persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called
the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the
trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the
seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot.
See {Bower}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Euchre \Eu"chre\, v. t.
1. To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the
trump.
2. To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
euchre
n : a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards
and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a
hand [syn: {five hundred}]
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