Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet KNAVE

Definition av KNAVE

1. (kortspel) knekt
2. (ålderdomligt) kanalje

Exempel på hur man kan använda KNAVE i en mening

• It may be the same as beat the knave out of doors or knave out o' doors, in which case it is much older as this game is mentioned as early as 1755.
• All cards from two to six are removed from a 52-card pack, to produce the Piquet pack of thirty-two cards, which rank from the lowest 7, 8, 9, 10, ace, knave, queen, to king high.
• in his history, says of him (Newcastle) that he was of so feeble a head, and so treacherous a heart that Sir Robert Walpole called his name 'Perfidy'; that Lord Halifax used to revile him as a knave and fool, and that he was so ignorant of this continent, that it was said of him, that he addressed his letters to the 'Island of New England.
• The root is also found in Norwegian dialectal boa ("brother"), and, through a reduplicated variant *bō-bō-, in Old Norse bófi, Dutch boef "(criminal) knave, rogue", German Bube ("knave, rogue, boy").
• Therefore, B's statement must be untrue, so he is a knave, making C's statement true, so he is a knight.
• Note the exclamation by Estella in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, jacks, this boy!" Knave was the proper term and it was considered uncouth to call them 'Jacks'.
• In the Guarro type, the kings of cups and swords have beards, their knights and the knave of swords have mustaches.
• The values on the cards range numerically from one through seven, plus three face cards in each suit: knave (fante), knight (cavallo), and king (re).
• However, it died out during the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) only to appear in Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester of 1674 as Five Cards, in which the trump 5, known as five fingers is the highest card, followed by the ace of hearts, trump ace and trump knave, an earlier order different from later members of the family.

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