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▪ I. † ˈante, n.1 Obs.
[a. Sp. ante, also dante, ad. Arab. lamt, some animal of the antelope or buffalo kind, ‘el Dante, que los Affricanos llaman Lamt’ (Marmol, in Dozy). Its skin is called in Arab. ad-daraca lamt, corrupt. in Sp. adaraga dante, adarga de ante, whence dante, ante, for the animal.]
[1598Florio, Ante..a wilde beast in India as big as an asse with round eares, with the neather lip like a trumpet, neuer going but by night.] 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1029 Buffles, Badgers, Ante, Deere.
▪ II. ante, n.2 Orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈæntiː|
Also erron. anti.
[a. L. ante before.]
In Poker, a stake put up by a player (usually, the eldest hand) before the draw; similarly in other card games. Also attrib. in ante-man = age n. 6 b.
1838Victims of Gaming 86 The one next to the dealer [at brag] puts up into the pool..any sum he may choose, unless the amount has been..fixed by the company. This sum is called the ante. 1844J. Cowell Thirty Years 94 The dealer makes the game, or value of the beginning bet, and called the anti. 1853J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alab. 8 A negro ante and twenty on the call, was moderate playing. 1882Poker 7 To begin the pool, the player next to the dealer, on his left, must put up money, which is called an ‘Ante’. Ibid. 8 It is best generally for the ante-man to make good and go in.
b. transf. An amount paid in advance; price, subscription, means. Freq. in phr. to raise the ante.
1890Harper's Mag. Feb. 428/2, I raised the ante, and sold three hundred papers at ten cents each. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 36/1 Weekly premiums are paid, and after a conviction a member pays a double ante, because his fine will be heavier next time. 1959Economist 16 May 655/2 Raising the Ante... The problem for the News of the World was how it was to find the cash to make the purchase. 1964Wanganui Chronicle 25 Mar. 1/9 Few people in Wanganui and district had the ante to go into the fishing industry.
▪ III. ante, v. Orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈæntiː|
Also erron. anti.
[f. ante n.2]
trans. To put (an ante); also transf., to bet, stake; to pay off, up; to hand over, surrender. Also absol.
1846J. J. Hooper Adv. Simon Suggs x. 129 Ante up! ante up, boys—friends I mean—don't back out! Ibid. xii. 144 Exsept..500 dollers I anteed off amongst the boys of a night, I couldn't git off a sent. 1854in Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) 971 Playin' at billiards an' monte Till they've nary red cent to ante. 1857Knickerbocker Jan. 43, I did hear that you anted off 1000 shares in trade for Texas lands. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), To Anti, to risk; to venture a bet; as, ‘I'll anti all I'm worth on that’. This term is derived from the game of poker. 1888Farmer Americanisms, To Ante up is to pay, as well as to wager. 1889R. Guerndale Poker Bk. ii. 13 The player after the dealer must Ante first, before the draw. Ibid. vii. 42 B Antes one, and the cards are dealt by A. 1896H. A. Vachell Rom. Judge Ketchum iii. viii. 267 Death..and I hev bin pardners many a time, an' when he passes the word, I'll ante up with a smile if I kin. 1900H. Lawson On Track 157 The man that doesn't ante gets the best of this world. 1904‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men vii. 98 Look here; you anti them [missing sheep] up, at once. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 8 Ante up, to surrender anything. 1938Wodehouse Summer Moonshine viii. 88 You pay as you enter. Can you ante up? 1945D. Wheatley Man who missed War i. 13 The income tax payer would have to ante-up quite a bit more in the pound. 1948V. Palmer Golconda v. 33 ‘Ante up for your union ticket..,’ went on Mahony.
▪ IV. ante
obs. form of ant and aunt. |