cross-throw

Updated: May 7, 2025

I have often wondered that the physicians of these places prescribe gaming to their patients, in order to keep their minds free from business and thought, that their waters on an undisturbed mind may have the greater effect, when indeed one cross-throw at play must sour a man's blood more than ten glasses of water will sweeten, especially for such great sums as they throw for every day at Bath.

Daniel Defoe - From London to Land's End : and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"