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meld1 definition

meld (meld)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Card Games to make known, for a score, that one holds (a card or combination of cards), esp. by putting them face up on the table

Etymology: Ger melden, to announce, akin to OE meld, proclamation < IE base *meldh-, to address a deity > OSlav moliti, to ask

noun

  1. the act of melding
  2. a combination of cards melded or to be melded
meld2 definition

☆ meld (meld)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to blend; merge; unite

Etymology: merging of melt + weld

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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