Meaning of sweat-cloth | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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, will truſt her to the amount of a ſingle cent on his account, and as for bed and board⟳, he never had any for her—and aſks how ſhe could deſtroy his property, when he never had any, except three dice, a sweat-cloth, and a rum bottle.””

“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?”

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