hustle-cap ? Obs.
(ˈhʌs(ə)lˌkæp)
Also hussel-cap.
[f. hustle v. (sense 1) + cap n. Cf. MLG. hutseken, hütschen, MDu. hutssecruyssen as names of similar games.]
A form of pitch-and-toss, in which the coins were ‘hustled’ or shaken together in a cap before being tossed.
| 1709 Brit. Apollo II. No. 2. 1/2 If He delight at Hustle-Cap to play. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. ii, An excellent hand at a song, hussle-cap, and chuck-farthing. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. (1849) 167 Youngsters who..squandered what little money they could procure at hustle-cap and chuck-farthing. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 232 We played all night at brag, all-fours, teetotum, hussle-cap. |