Vole

Definitions

1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
   archaic
2. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.”

“With humble curate can I now retire⟳, (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?”

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