a. The Forty-five: the year 1745, and the Jacobite rebellion of that year. b. Card-playing. A game in which each trick counts five and the game is forty-five. Also forty-fives.
a. 1832. Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. xi. Ye have heard of a year they call the forty-five, young gentleman: when the Southron’s heads made their last acquaintance with Scottish claymores?
1895. D. Marshall, in Scot. Antiq., X. 77. In the ’Forty-five, Burleigh Castle, near Milnathort, and about equally distant between Perth and Queensferry, was garrisoned for King George, as in the ’Fifteen for his father.
b. 1875. Wood & Lapham, Wait. Mail, 32. The others having gathered round the rough table to enjoy the Irish game of ‘forty-fives.’
