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able whackets - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
able whackets pl (plural only). (nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment ...
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Able-whackets - World Wide Words
A popular sea-game with cards, wherein the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope.
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Ablewhackets - Ocracoke Island Journal
A popular sea-game with cards, wherein the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope.
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able-whackets
able-whackets [f. whack.] ‘A popular sea-game with cards, wherein the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope. Very popular with horny-fisted sailors.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
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able whackets, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun able whackets is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for able whackets is from 1785, in a dictionary by Francis ...
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"ABLEWHACKETS": Blows delivered as punishment ritual - OneLook
noun: Alternative spelling of able whackets [(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as ...
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ablewhackets - definition and meaning - Wordnik
noun A game of cards played by sailors, in which the loser receives a whack or blow with a knotted handkerchief for every game he loses. Also spelled ...
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ablewhackets - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Alternative spelling of able whackets. Anagrams. edit · abelwhackets.
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abelwhackets: meaning, definition - WordSense Dictionary
The chief amusement or game in use in the midshipmen's berth, was 'able whackets', a pastime in which cards, blasphemy, and hard knocks were agreeably mingled.
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29 Games Nobody Plays Anymore - Mental Floss
ABLE-WHACKETS (1700s-1800s). Able-whackets is a card game that was “very popular with horny-fisted salts,” according to The Sailors Word Book ...
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ablewhackets (Every English Word Pronounced) 🗣 - YouTube
ablewhackets". YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE http://www.youtube.com/c/SeeHearSayLearn?sub_confirmation=1 In this video series we're going through every ...
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able | Etymology of able by etymonline
Able seaman, one able to do any sort of work required on a ship, may be the origin of this: Able-whackets - A popular sea-game with cards, in which the loser is beaten over the palms of the hands with a handkerchief tightly twisted like a rope. Very popular with horny-fisted sailors. [Smyth, "Sailor's Word-Book," 1867]
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▪ I. able, a. (eɪb(ə)l) Forms: 4–6 abill(e, 5 abyl, abylle, abel, 5–6 abul, 5–7 hable, 6–8 habil, 7–8 habile, 4– able; [a. OFr. hable, able (mod.Fr. habile):—L. habil-em, verbal adj., f. habē-re to hold; lit. ‘easy to be held or handled, handy,’ hence ‘pliant, suitable, fit for a purpose.’ The initi...
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