(b) The four hands into which a pack is distributed for play are termed a “deal;” the same term is also used to designate the act of distributing the cards to the players.
(c) A “tray” is a device for retaining the hands of a deal and indicating the order of playing them.
(d) The player who is entitled to the trump card is termed the “dealer,” whether the cards have or have not been dealt by him.
(e) The first play of a deal is termed “the original play;” the second or any subsequent play of such deal, the “overplay.”
(f) “Duplicate Whist” is that form of the game of whist in which each deal is played only once by each player, and in which each deal is so overplayed as to bring the play of teams, pairs of individuals into comparison.
(g) A player “renounces” when he does not follow suit to the card led; he “renounces in error” when, although holding one or more cards of the suit led, he plays a card of a different suit; if such renounce in error is not lawfully corrected it constitutes a “revoke.”
(h) A card is “played” whenever, in the course of play, it is placed or dropped face upwards on the table.
(i) A trick is “turned and quitted” when all four players have turned and quitted their respective cards.