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Definition of Swabbers
1. swabber [n] - See also: swabber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swabbers
Literary usage of Swabbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Whist: A Study of the Progressive Changes which the Game by William Pole (1894)
"With these names there came to be associated another of a very strange character ;
namely, " swabbers " or ..."
2. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"Swift also, in his " Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" (1728), ridicules Archbishop
Tenison for not understanding the meaning of swabbers. ..."
3. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1879)
"It has been conjectured by later writers that swabbers were identical with the
honours; but this is an error. In Captain Francis Grose's " Classical ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Fielding (History of Mr Jonathan WUd) says that whisk-and-swabbers was "the ...
Grose (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785) states that swabbers are "the ..."
5. The Whist Table: A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game by "Cavendish," C by Portland, Cavendish, Abraham S. Wilks (1894)
"played with what were called swabbers, which were possibly so termed, because
they who had certain cards in their hand were entitled to take up a share of ..."
6. The Evolution of Whist: A Study of the Progressive Changes which the Game by William Pole (1894)
"With these names there came to be associated another of a very strange character ;
namely, " swabbers " or ..."
7. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1876)
"Swift also, in his " Essay on the Fates of Clergymen" (1728), ridicules Archbishop
Tenison for not understanding the meaning of swabbers. ..."
8. The Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained: And Its Practice by Cavendish (1879)
"It has been conjectured by later writers that swabbers were identical with the
honours; but this is an error. In Captain Francis Grose's " Classical ..."
9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Fielding (History of Mr Jonathan WUd) says that whisk-and-swabbers was "the ...
Grose (Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785) states that swabbers are "the ..."
10. The Whist Table: A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game by "Cavendish," C by Portland, Cavendish, Abraham S. Wilks (1894)
"played with what were called swabbers, which were possibly so termed, because
they who had certain cards in their hand were entitled to take up a share of ..."
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