hoyle

Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

hoyle(n = noun.person) fred hoyle, sir fred hoyle - an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001); Array

is a kind of astrophysicist

hoyle(n = noun.person) edmond hoyle - English writer on card games (1672-1769); Array

is a kind of card player, author, writer

hoyle, n.

Idiom

according to Hoyle adv. correctly, exactly.
--adj. correct, exact.

Etymology

E. Hoyle, Engl. writer on card-games d. 1769

For further exploring for "hoyle" in Webster Dictionary Online