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all fours en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The four legs of a quadruped.
  2. The four limbs of a primate.
    • to be on all fours
  3. A card game similar to whist.
    • 'Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow. 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
    • 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. 1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:
  4. A certain game of dominos.

Relateds

on all fours

Translations (4)

fi raajat (four legs of a quadruped) · fi raajat (four limbs of a primate) · ru кара́чки (four limbs of a primate) · ru четвере́ньки (four limbs of a primate)