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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the card player on the dealer's left [syn: eldest hand, elder hand]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Elder Eld"er, a. [AS. yldra, compar. of eald old. See Old.] 1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. --Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. --Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. --Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. --Hoyle.