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sweat-cloth

sweat-cloth noun: a canvas cloth placed under a horse’s saddle.

Noun

sweat-cloth (plural sweat-cloths)

  1. A canvas cloth placed under a horse’s saddle.
  2. A gambling game played with three dice and a staking-layout drawn on a sweat-cloth, or the equipment for this game.
    • A Nicholas Creerly, has, in a Bucks county (Penn.) paper, in the uſual way, warned the public not to truſt his wife on his account, charging her with having deſtroyed his property, &c. His wife, in reply to this notice, ſays: “That he need not have taken this pains, as no perſon where he is known...1810 (February 14), “American Intelligence”, Maryland Gazette, page 3
    • What is a race-course but a convention of gambling hells out of doors, where, in a wider net, more of the weak and the vain are caught at the faro-bank or sweat-cloth, or induced in the excitement to bet on the horses?1864 (March), “Games of Chance as an Amusement”, The Ladies’ Repository, pages 252–258

Synonyms of sweat-cloth

Forms of sweat-cloth

pluralsweat-cloths

Questions about sweat-cloth

What does sweat-cloth mean?
Sweat-cloth means a canvas cloth placed under a horse’s saddle.
What part of speech is sweat-cloth?
Sweat-cloth is a noun.
What is the plural of sweat-cloth?
The plural of sweat-cloth is sweat-cloths.

Words near sweat-cloth in the dictionary

  1. sweat shops
  2. sweat sock
  3. sweat socks
  4. sweat the small stuff
  5. sweat trousers
  6. sweat-cloth
  7. sweat-dappled
  8. sweat-house
  9. sweat-houses
  10. sweat-stained
  11. sweat-trousers

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