The whole deal of cards given to a single player. The cards which he holds in his hand.
“A saint in heaven would grieve to see such ‘handʹ
Cut up by one who will not understand.”
Crabbe: Borough.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.