Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cinquanter n.1

[Fr. cinque, the number five, marked on a die]

a gambler.

Nashe Saffron Walden 7: Some tall old cinquanter or stigmatical-bearded Master of Arts.
[UK]Collins Defence Bishop Ely ii x 410: He would coniure you into a boote, or into a bench-hole for your labour, like a sawcy Sinckanter [OED].
[UK]T. Jackson Creed x xix Works IX 115: One Volanerius an old sinkanter, or gamester and scurrilous companion by profession [OED].