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Set :: Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

Dowagerism :: Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively..

Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.

Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..

Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..

Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

Pawn :: Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

Bet :: Bet (v. t.) To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

Compurgator :: Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk..

Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..

Battel :: Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager..

Revie :: Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Depone :: Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager..

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