melded

verb (used with or without object)

1. to announce and display (a counting combination of cards in the hand) for a score.

noun

2. the act of melding.
3. any combination of cards to be melded.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to merge; blend.

noun

2. a blend.

verb

1. (in some card games) to declare or lay down (cards), which then score points

noun

2. the act of melding
3. a set of cards for melding

verb

1. to blend or become blended; combine

v.“to blend together, merge, unite” (intransitive), by 1910, of uncertain origin. OED suggests “perh. a blend of MELT v.1 and WELD v.” Said elsewhere to be a verb use of melled “mingled, blended,” past participle of dialectal mell “to mingle, mix, combine, blend.” [T]he biplane grew smaller and smaller, the stacatto clatter of the motor became once more a drone which imperceptibly became melded with the waning murmur of country sounds …. [“Aircraft” magazine, October 1910] But it is perhaps an image from card-playing, where the verb meld is attested by 1907 in a sense of “combine two cards for a score:” Upon winning a trick, and before drawing from the stock, the player can “meld” certain combinations of cards. [rules for two-hand pinochle in “Hoyle’s Games,” 1907] The rise of the general sense of the word in English coincides with the craze for canasta, in which melding figures. The card-playing sense is said to be “apparently” from German melden “make known, announce,” from Old High German meldon, from Proto-Germanic *meldojan (cf. Old English meldian “to declare, tell, display, proclaim”), and the notion is of “declaring” the combination of cards. Related: Melded; melding.