sweat-cloth

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sweat-cloth

noun 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, w

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@misc{sweat_cloth_2026,
  title = {sweat-cloth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sweat-cloth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}