单词 | penny gleek |
释义 | > as lemmaspenny (halfpenny, two-penny, etc.) gleek 1. A card game, played by three persons; forty-four cards were used, twelve being dealt to each player, while the remaining eight formed a common ‘stock’. Also penny (halfpenny, two-penny, etc.) gleek. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek gleek1533 farthing-gleeka1652 toe-gleek1689 1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man Pref. It is..lerned sooner..thanne Primero or Gleeke. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing To Rdr. sig. A.iij What is a man now a dayes if he know not..to play..at Cards, Dice, &c. Post, Cente, Gleke, or such other games. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 226 As in games at Cards, the Maw requires a quicke conceit,..the Gleeke (because of varietie) requires a retentive memory. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. ii. 31 in Wks. II When you please Sir, I am For three peny Gleeke, your man. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 160 Yet you've an Imposition laid on Brick, For all you then laid out, at Beast, or Gleek. 1680 T. Shadwell Woman-captain iv The rogue bids for his liberty, as if it were a Stock at 12d Gleek. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 56 The games of Gleek, Primero, In and In, and several others now exploded, employed our sharping ancestors. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. x. 237 Would win ten times as much at gleek and primero, as I used to do at put and beggar-my-neighbour. 1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 113 It was at some place of lower resort that he..staked his little means at gleek [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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