bucket shop, sweat

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Jun 15 21:19:51 UTC 2005


"bucket shop" OED has 1875
sweat [dice game] OED has 1894

"The Dusky Race" New York Times; Mar 2, 1869; pg. 1 col 3.
"They meet at the various bucket-shops about to plan burglaries and
robberies from the person; and when they have succeeded in robbing some
store or some unhappy wayfarer, and have converted their plunder into
money at the "receivers," they go off to the "faro" or to the "sweat"
table to get rid of it, for they are just as inveterate gamblers as
their white light-fingered brethren."



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