Associations to the word «Crossruff»

Wiktionary

CROSSRUFF, noun. (bridge) A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
CROSSRUFF, verb. To execute a crossruff

Dictionary definition

CROSSRUFF, verb. Trump alternately in two hands.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope