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单词 to loo the board
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to loo the board
a. transitive. To subject to a forfeit at loo (see loo n.1 1). to loo the board (see quot. 1883).
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1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xx. 102 If you play and are loo'd (that is, win never a trick).
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xx. 103 He who hath five Cards of a suit in his hand loos all the Gamesters then playing,..and sweeps the board.
c1750 W. Shenstone To Friend I'll play the cards come next my fingers—Fortune cou'd never let Ned loo her, When she had left it wholly to her.
1797 Sporting Mag. 10 304 The whole sum which happens to be down at the time when he is looed.
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. 240 General Mainwaring had been looed in miss four times running.
1883 H. Jones in Encycl. Brit. XV. 1/2 A flush..loos the board, i.e., the holder receives the amount of a loo from every one, and the hand is not played.
1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xv [He] suggested that ‘black Jack should loo the board’..so black Jack looed the board, and the loos became more frequent still.
1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xvi It was proposed that the stakes should be raised to five guineas unlimited... Each player put in five guineas, making a total of twenty-five guineas, which sum represented the amount a player would be looed for.
1886 D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xviii. 134 To hold King, Knave, nine, and get looed on it.
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