all fours
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Noun
- The four legs of a quadruped.
- The four limbs of a primate.
- to be on all fours
- (card games) A card game similar to whist.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
- 'Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow.
- 1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:
- Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.
- A certain game of dominos.
Translations
four limbs of a primate
card game
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