Definitions for Skat

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Skat skat

Spelling: [skaht, skat]

IPA: /skɑt, skæt/

Skat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Skat (akst).

Definitions for Skat

noun

1. a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.

Origin of Skat

1860-65; German skat Italian scarto, derivative of scartare to discard, equivalent to s- ex-¹ + -cartare, derivative of carta card

Examples for Skat

"We expect you on Wednesday for skat," said Mrs. Freudenthal.

After a time the skat players, as usual, came bursting in, talking noisily and red of face.

He could not see it, but when he had poked among the bushes and cried ‘skat!’

Even the skat players gave their attention for a few moments at a time.

Dirty playing cards were dug out and soon there was a real German skat game in full swing.

It is also a ready reference on all rulings and plays up to the present time, a condensed glossary on the game of skat.

Players of skat will readily recognize these terms and the value of the cards.

skat, skat, n. a game played with thirty-two cards as in Piquet, and said to have been invented in 1817 in Altenburg.

With a double dummy, the French way, or Norwegian skat, if you like.

In their corner the skat players were sitting over their cards.