Bible Dictionaries
Deuce

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The devil; a demon.

(2):

(n.) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

(3):

(n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Deuce'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/deuce.html. 1828.