cribbage

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A card game for from two to four players in which the score is kept by inserting small pegs into holes arranged in rows on a small board.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A game of cards played with the full pack, generally by two persons, sometimes by three or four. Each player receives six cards, or in a variety of the game five, two of which he throws out, face downward, to form the crib, which belongs to the dealer. The cards in counting have a value according to the number of pips or spots on them, the face-cards being counted as ten-spots. Each player strives, with the cards in his hand, with the one turned up from the undealt pack, and with the crib when it is his turn to have it, to secure as many counting combinations as possible, as, for instance, sequences, pairs, cards the spots on which will equal 15, etc. The counting is done by moving a peg forward on the cribbage-board as many holes as the player secures points, that player winning who first advances his peg the length of the board and back to the end hole.

Wiktionary

1. n. card games A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the (cribbage board) used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two