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1814 B. F. Palmer Diary 30 May (1914) 70 I employ'd in washing & mending my messmate playing keeno.

1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers 93 I commenced operations by purchasing shares in a dice-board, a vingt-et-un table, and a quino table.

1870 A. S. Evans Our Sister Republic xx. 462 A great shed capable of seating one thousand or fifteen hundred people, which is devoted exclusively to quino, played for money. The cards or tickets are pasted down upon the tables and must number at least one thousand all told. Each player is provided with a handful of corn with which to keep the game as the numbers drawn out by the dealer are called... One game..takes about three minutes.

1871 Figaro 15 Apr. The police pulled every Keno establishment in the city.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iv. 95 This game, like keno, has less of the ‘cutthroat’ about it than the others.

1875 E. King Southern States N. Amer. xx. 206 A man..tried to shoot the keno-dealer in the back.

1879 Scribner's Monthly 19 386/1 To play cards and keno for small stakes.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 June 11/2 Some of the members were lying about asleep in the gaming room, having..been hit hard by the latest American importation, kino.

1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 iv. 40 We'll have a drawin' over in Slim Jim's keno ranch.

1904 W. N. Harben Georgians xxiii. 218 The town's got what they call the ‘White Elephant’—a gamblin’, keno shebang on a giant scale.

1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 (1914) ix. 108 I'd shore look nice loping around a keno lay-out without my guns, in th' same town with some cuss huntin' me, wouldn't I?

1951 E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. (1952) xii. 144 Another huge gambling casino..ran dice, keno and card games.

1968 R. F. Adams Western Words (ed. 2) 169 Keno..is played with a large globe, called the keno goose.

1868 Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 30 Sept. 3/2 When they thus got three beans in a row they were to call out ‘Keno!’ and rake in the pot.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 June 11/2 He opened a door and ushered me in, and the first exclamation I heard was ‘Kino’ and a grunt of satisfaction.

1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 (1914) xix. 193 He wants to know where th' cards are stacked an' why he can't holler ‘Keno’.

1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan vii. 87 Bill turned his head, and one eye closed in an emphatic wink. ‘Keno,’ he replied.

1920 in J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 205 Shake yer spurs an' make 'em rattle! Keno! Promenade to seats.

1924 C. E. Mulford Rustler's Valley vi. 75 ‘If yo're goin' out to Milt you better take some supplies...’ ‘Keno,’ grunted Matt, departing.