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Definition of Gamblings
1. gambling [n] - See also: gambling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamblings
Literary usage of Gamblings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Deedsby William Blake Trask, Frank Eliot Bradish, Suffolk County (Mass.), Charles A. Drew, A. Grace Small by William Blake Trask, Frank Eliot Bradish, Suffolk County (Mass.), Charles A. Drew, A. Grace Small (1890)
"11 A. between gamblings end and the meeting house in ... Isaac Newell E. and by N.
; footway leading to gamblings end W. Dwelling house nnd 4 A. land in ..."
2. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"The talk about "speculations;" that is to say, "adventurous dealings," or rather,
commercial gamblings; the talk about these having been the cause of the ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"horse-racings, or his gamblings, or his extravagances. It must all out now.
He must confess himself a Prodigal and a Sinner, and ask for their forgiveness ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: Now First by Agnes Strickland (1854)
"... since she only left England the 28th of November, and Dr. Lake records her
Sunday gamblings January 9th, scarcely six weeks afterwards. ..."
5. Rural Rides by William Cobbett (1853)
"The talk about " speculations "; that is to say, " adventurous dealings or,
rather, commercial gamblings;" the talk about these having been the cause of the ..."