trey

See also: Trey

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English treye, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French treis (“three”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: trā, IPA^(key): /tɹeɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: tray, trait (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

trey (plural treys)

1. (card games, occasionally dice games) A playing card or die with the rank of three.
   • 1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, Chapter 6, p. 81,^[1]

     Before you begin the Game at Picket, you must throw out of the Pack the Deuces, Treys, Fours and Fives, and play with the rest of the Cards, which are in number thirty and six.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 11,^[2]

     He had been a pretty good guy, straight as ace-deuce-trey-four-five, till he got on the force.

2. (card games, dice games, dominoes) A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
3. (US, Canada, basketball, informal) A three-pointer.
4. (informal) The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
5. The third branch of a deer's antler.

Related terms

• tray-trip

Translations

playing card

• Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
• Ido: trio (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: トレイ (torei)

score

• Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: トレイ (torei)

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Anagrams

• Tyer, Tyre, tyer, tyre