eldest hand

1. 1.

   the card player on the dealer's left

   Synonymselder hand

   Broadercard player

Questions about eldest hand

What does eldest hand mean?

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

What is another word for eldest hand?

Close synonyms include elder 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 eldest hand a common word?

eldest 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.