elder hand

1. 1.

   the card player on the dealer's left

   Synonymseldest hand

   Broadercard player

Questions about elder hand

What does elder hand mean?

elder hand means "the card player on the dealer's left".

What is another word for elder hand?

Close synonyms include eldest hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elder hand a common word?

elder hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.