meld

Meanings

Verb

• to combine multiple similar objects into one.
• In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

Noun

• A combination of cards which is melded.

Related

Similar words

• conflate

Origin

• ; alternatively, from English melled, past participle of mell.
• Probably borrowed from Dutch or German melden. Compare cognate Middle English melden, from Old English meldian.