Capot

Quick meaning: Capot is a noun meaning (card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.

Meaning

(card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.

Example Sentences

“Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?”

There are three chances in this game, viz., the repique, pique, and capot[…]The Capot is , when either of the Players make every Trick , for which he is to count forty ; instead of which he counts but ten , when he only gets the Majority of the Tricks, which is called , the Cards

A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points.

Word Forms

• capots
• capotting
• capoting
• capotted
• capoted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include piquet, pique, picquet, repique, quint, picket.

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