Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a gaming ground.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Pass-bank, the Stock or Fund thereto belonging i.e. to the game of passage; also the playing Place Cut out in the Ground almost Cock-pit waies.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Pass bank, the place for playing at passage, cut into the ground almost like a cock-pit.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.