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Word: ruff
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Noun:
- A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it ruff and honours.
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted neckware in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
- A male of the species ''Philomachus pugnax'', a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the female is a reeve.
- Any of several freshwater fish, of the genus ''Acerina'', similar to perch.
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Verb:
- To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led
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