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/gˈeɪmɪŋ/ Listen

noun

gaming n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

verb

Game v. i. (past & past part. gamed; pres. part. gaming)

To rejoice; to be pleased; often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. (Obs.) "God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte."

To play at any sport or diversion.

To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

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Etymology of 'Gaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... immortal man, made "in the image of God," is more unfeelingly and cruelly dealt with, than the brute. I know that you intimate that this system would work well, were it in the hands of none but good men. But with equal propriety might you say, that the gaming-house or the brothel would work well in such hands. You have attempted to sustain this system by the testimony of the Bible. The system, a part only of the crimes of which, most of the nations of Christendom have declared to be piracy;—against which, the common sense, the ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... There remained the gaming table. In the north country he had watched men sit in a silent circle, smoking, drinking, with the flare of an oil-lamp against deep, seamed faces, and only the slip and whisper of ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... Gaming is not uncommon amongst the Crees of all the different districts, but it is pursued to greater lengths by those bands who frequent the plains and who, from the ease with which they obtain food, have abundant leisure. ...

— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin

... drove him panic-stricken from the door. A sermon against dancing and games drew him for a time from these indulgences; but the temptation again overmastered his resolve. "I shook the sermon out of my mind, and to my old custom of sports and gaming I returned with great delight. But the same day, as I was in the midst of a game of cat, and having struck it one blow from the hole, just as I was about to strike it the second time, a voice did suddenly dart from heaven into my soul, which said, 'Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven, ...

— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green

... heavy curtains hanging over the doors. On the walls were beautiful paintings, and on a stand to one side of the room rested a remarkable piece of statuary representing three jolly gamblers at the gaming-table. ...

— The Missing Tin Box - or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds • Arthur M. Winfield

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