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[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 201: There was a sight o’ racin’ goin’ on in them times and I wanted my fin in everything o’ that kind.
at fin, n.1
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 202: It kind o’ made us feel uneasy about the gills.
at gills, n.1
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 201: ‘Speakin’ of horse racin’, said Jailer Birdsall last evening [...] ‘I had my dose an’ I’m a horsethief if I haven’t kept it dark for eighteen years.’.
at horse thief (n.) under horse, n.
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 202: We both had scads in them times an’ when the start was made we’d about five thousand on the black between us.
at scad, n.2
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 203: It was the lowest down shennanigen that ever was played on two honest men.
at shenanigan, n.
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 203: I oiled up my shooter.
at shooter, n.1
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 202: Everythin’ worked slick.
at slick, adv.
[US] Eve. Chronicle (Virginia City) 10 June in M. Lewis Mining Frontier (1967) 202: Hardy set to work an’ got the jockeys blind, stavin’ drunk.
at staving, adv.
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