=Book.=--The first six tricks won by the same partners.
=Bring-in.=--To make the cards of a suit.
=By Cards.=--The number of tricks won, more than six, or over
the “Book,” is the number by cards. For instance, eight tricks are
equal to two by cards.
=Cards of Re-entry.=--A winning card which will bring into play
another suit. Sometimes the re-entry is in the suit itself, but when
a suit with a re-entry is spoken of, it means that the re-entry is in
another suit.
=Chicane.=--A hand dealt without a trump.
=Command.=--The best card or cards of a suit. The ability to
stop the suit at any time.
=Coup.=--A brilliant play resulting in gain.
=Covering.=--Putting a higher card on the trick when not the
last player.
=Cross-ruff.=--When two suits are being trumped by opposite
hands.
=Des Chapelles Coup.=--Sacrificing a high card, by leading it to
make an entry card for your partner’s hand.
=Discarding.=--When unable to follow suit, throwing away a
card of a suit which is not trumps.
=Doubling.=--Increasing the value of the trick points.
=Doubtful Cards=.--Cards which may or may not win tricks.
=Ducking.=--Refusing to play the master card of a suit, with the
object of making the smaller cards in the suit.
=Dummy.=--The player whose cards are exposed on the table.
=Duplicate.=--A modification in which each hand is played more
than once.
=Echo.=--Playing a higher card before a lower, to your partner’s
high card lead.
=Eldest Hand.=--The player on the dealer’s left.
=Entry Card.=--A card, with which you can obtain the lead.
=Established Suit.=--A suit in which the partners can win every
trick.
=Exposed Card.=--Any card which is shown, but is not played to
the trick, such as one or two cards inadvertently played at once.
=Fall.=--The cards as they are played.
=False Cards.=--Playing the ace, holding the king, or any
similar attempt to conceal the cards held.
=Finesse.=--Any attempt to win a trick with a card which is not
the best in the hand, nor in sequence with it.
=Follow.=--The cards played of the suit led.
=Forcing.=--Making a player trump to win the trick.
=Fourchette.=--The card next higher and next lower than the one
led. Holding jack, nine, ten led--you hold a fourchette.
=Fourth Best.=--Counting from the highest card in the suit.
=Going Over.=--Doubling the value of the trick points.
=Guarded Suits.=--A high card so protected by smaller cards that
it cannot be caught by the adversaries’ lead of higher cards.
=Holding Up.=--Refusing to play the best, and sometimes the
second best card, of a suit.
=Honours.=--In trumps the A K Q J 10 of the suit. At “no-trumps,”
the four aces.
=Leader.=--The first player to any trick.
=Leading Through.=--Leading suit with a view to what the
second hand holds in it.
=Leading Up To.=--Playing a suit with a view to what the fourth
hand holds in it.
=Little Slam.=--Twelve tricks won out of thirteen.
=Long Suit.=--A suit of more than three cards.
=Long Trump.=--The last trump in play.
=Losing Cards.=--Cards which cannot possibly take tricks.
=Love-all.=--The state of the score before either side has made
a point.
=Master Cards.=--Any card of a suit the best in play.
=Odd Trick.=--The first trick over the book of six.
=Opening.=--You “open” a suit when you are the first to lead a
card from the suit. The original leader is said to make the opening
lead.
=Original Lead.=--The opening of the hand.
=Pass.=--When no effort is made to take a trick.
=Revoke.=--Renouncing while still holding cards of the suit led.
=Round.=--The cards that compose the trick.
=Rubber.=--Two out of three games.
=Ruffing.=--Trumping a trick.
=Sequence.=--Two or more cards of equal value.
=Short Suit.=--Any suit of less than four cards.
=Singleton.=--A suit of which you hold originally but one card.
=Slam.=--Winning all thirteen tricks.
=Tenace.=--The best and third best of a suit. Ace and queen are
tenace over the king, jack.
=Third Hand.=--The leader’s partner.
=Throwing the Lead.=--Purposely playing a losing card that you
may not retain the lead.
=Unblocking.=--Getting rid of a card that may stop the run of a
long suit.
=Underplay.=--Playing a low card with a higher card in hand.
=Weak Suits.=--Those in which tricks are impossible, or very
improbable.
=Weakness.=--Inability to stop a suit.
=Younger Hand.=--The partner of the original leader.