cardsharp

cardsharp englannista suomeksi

1. korttihuijari

0. Substantiivi

1. korttihai, korttihuijari

cardsharp englanniksi

1. A professional cheater at games.

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2. (quote-book)|year=1850|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TLtxjaNOL-wC&pg=PA191|oclc=13345179|passage=While thus running on, the knavish card-sharp was slowly, and with apparent fairness, cutting the pack, which was prepared by having every card but the honours of each suit cut at the ''ends'', in so slight a degree, however, as not to shorten them enough to be detectible by an ordinary eye, though sufficiently to be felt by a fine and practised finger, which could thus ensure a court-card, while the ''red'' cards of the pack (or ''deck'' of cards, as they were then commonly called) were deprived of their proper size by a similar process of shaving off the ''sides'', so as to make the turn-up either red or black at will of the player.

3. (quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=New Church Publishing Association,(nb...)|year=1858|page=l|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KdcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR50|oclc=560697389|passage='Why (w),' said (w), 'nor Angels nor sinners / Can live without eating; let's go to our dinners; / Men who play at old sledge cannot both be the winners; / The card-sharps, you know, lose the dimes to beginners; (..)'

4. (quote-journal)|date=18 November 1865|year_published=1866|volume=I|issue=12|section=chapter XVIII (The New Hut)|page=178|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4pGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA178|column=1|oclc=173347690|passage=Whenever we used to want to take a rise out o' Bill after, we only had to ax him if he'd seen any more card sharps, and he'd get as mad as a hatter.

5. (quote-journal)|journal=Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society during the Year 1874|location=Sacramento, Calif.|publisher=G. H. Springer, state printer|year=1875|page=465|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cNBAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA465|oclc=1004239435|passage=In hilly country sheep will sometimes get lost in small bands. ... Should they prove unmanageable, refusing to travel, or running off from you, the adroit shepherd will practice against them a "string game" quite as effective as that the card sharp plays on the over-confident rustic. Catch the leader, or the whole party of rebels, and tie around one of the hind legs just above the hock joint, a piece of stout string— ...

6. (quote-journal),(nb...)|date=9 December 1876|year_published=1877|volume=XVII|issue=419 (New Series)|page=307|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPvVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA307|column=2|oclc=781591950|passage=The cleverest card-sharp we ever saw—outside of good society—was a Greek by country as well as by profession; but all the money he picked up in the by-ways of the sporting world went at the hazard-table, and the poor rogue often wanted a dinner.

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