单词 | crown gleek |
释义 | > as lemmascrown gleek c. With the sense ‘costing or worth a crown’ (sense 32), as crown coin, crown piece n.; spec. (Gambling) †‘involving stakes of a crown’, as crown cribbage, crown gleek, crown table, crown whist, etc. (obsolete). ΚΠ 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 126 The Popes meaned no lesse game then Crown-glieke with the King and people. 1713 J. Swift Let. 25 Jan. (1766) I. 151 I..was winning all I had lost playing with lady Masham at crown picquet. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 34 She plays Crown Whist. 1759 Mem. celebrated Miss Fanny M—— II. iii. 28 Mrs. —— always sent me cards for her rout, and indulged me so far as to make a crown table. 1764 Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 105 I played one rubber of crown cribbage. 1786 A. de Cardonnel Numismata Scotiæ Pref. 6 Aberdeen..continues till the arched crown coins of James IV. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude II. xxvi. 57 Ever a crown-table here, do you know? 1817 N. Drake Shakspeare & his Times II. vii. 170 It is then proposed to play either at twelve-penny gleek, or crown gleek. 1866 Austral. Jrnl. 7 Oct. 82/1 Then to the bar to take a nobbler with Bob Magrath,..with whom he made the crown bet, and has lost. 1883 Graduated Mental Arith. for Standards: Standard III 37 If I bought a crown hat, how many half pence should I give? 1998 Coin News May 16/1 To celebrate the 50th birthday of HRH the Prince of Wales, the Royal Mint has issued a crown coin. < as lemmas |
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