rubiconing
rubiconing is the present participle and gerund of rubicon.
Meaning of rubicon
Verb
rubicon (third-person singular simple present rubicons, present participle rubiconing, simple past and past participle rubiconed)
- Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
- 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...1902 November, Walter Del Mar, “London to Colombo”, in Around the World through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 3–4
Questions about rubiconing
- What is rubiconing the present participle and gerund of?
- Rubiconing is the present participle and gerund of rubicon.
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