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单词 to divide stakes
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to divide stakes
d. Phrases. to part stakes: see part v. 11c. Similarly †to share stakes, to divide stakes. to draw stakes, to withdraw what is staked as a wager, etc.
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to draw stakes1554
1554 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 246 Communicate your necessities to me, & to others of his people, and God will make vs to deuide stakes.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. D4v But belike the god himselfe ment to share stakes.
1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 186 But after a tedious dispute they shall leave off and draw stakes.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 300 The King of Persia farms out the Mint to private Persons, who gain most by it, and share stakes with the money-changers.
1708 Brit. Apollo 15–20 Oct. We wou'd..advise the Wagerers to draw Stakes.
1758 O. Goldsmith tr. J. Marteilhe Mem. Protestant I. 30 After two or three Conferences, he drew Stakes and declined the Dispute.
1783 Hampshire Chron. 8 Sept. 3/2 When after four days play it [sc. the cricket match] was left undecided, through the unfavourableness of the weather, the gentlemen mutually agreeing to draw their stakes.
1818 Nottingham Rev. 18 Sept. The London players..represented to the Nottingham Club, that £25 was a serious sum to them, and they should feel themselves greatly obliged if the Club would draw the stakes and agree to play for nothing.
1850 Bell’s Life in London 3 Mar. 2/3 [In 1788] Stump, the Lancashire pedestrian..[ran] four miles over Knutsford Course..in 20 min 13 sec. but one of the umpires omitting to stop his watch the stakes were drawn.
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