Here's a word that has several meanings. In Bridge, a
yarborough is a hand with no cards higher than a nine:
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A yarborough |
Wikipedia says it's named after Charles Anderson Worsley, the second Earl of Yarborough and a member of Parliament back in the 1800s. The odds against being dealt a yarborough are said to be around 1828 to 1.
Yarborough also applies to a type of knife used by Green Berets.
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