| heart |
anything shaped like the figure that somewhat resembles a heart, as on one of the four suits in a deck of cards. [1/8 definitions] |
| jack |
the face card of lowest value in a deck of cards, which usu. depicts a young man in uniform or livery; knave. [1/7 definitions] |
| joker |
in a deck of playing cards, a card, usu. one of two such, that has no suit or denomination, is used as a wild card in certain games, and usu. bears a picture of a court jester. [1/4 definitions] |
| knave |
in a deck of cards, a jack. [1/2 definitions] |
| lifeline |
a safety line strung along the deck of a ship as a handhold in stormy weather. [1/5 definitions] |
| misdeal |
to deal (a deck of playing cards) incorrectly. [1/2 definitions] |
| monte |
a card game played with a deck of forty cards in which a player selects two of four cards and bets that one will be matched by the dealer before the other. |
| pinochle |
a card game that two to four players play with a deck consisting of two each of the cards from nine to ace. |
| piquet |
a card game for two people that is played with a deck of thirty-two cards. |
| poop1 |
the deck on the top of this structure; poop deck. [1/2 definitions] |
| quarterdeck |
the rear part of the upper deck of a ship, usu. off limits to all but officers. |
| riffle |
to shuffle (cards) by holding half a deck in each hand and releasing the edges by one's thumbs to cause the cards to come together. [1/5 definitions] |
| roustabout |
a manual laborer on a wharf or ship's deck; longshoreman or deckhand. [1/3 definitions] |
| scupper |
an opening for draining excess water, as on a ship's deck or the floor or side of a building. [1/3 definitions] |
| shuffle |
to rearrange playing cards in a random order by separating parts of the deck and interleaving them with the remainder. [1/8 definitions] |
| shuffleboard |
a game in which disks are thrust with a long-handled, pronged cue along a smooth, marked floor or deck toward numbered scoring positions. |
| stack |
to secretly arrange (the cards in a deck) in order to cheat. [1/9 definitions] |
| suit |
all the playing cards of a single kind in a deck of cards. In games such as poker or bridge, the suits are clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. [1/10 definitions] |
| sun deck |
a platform, porch, ship's deck, or the like used for sunbathing. |
| superstructure |
a structure or part of a structure built upon something else, such as the part of a building above its foundation or the part of a ship above the main deck. [1/2 definitions] |
| Texas |
(l.c.) a structure on the upper deck of a steamboat that contains the officers' quarters. [1/2 definitions] |