skittle-sharpers

Updated: November 26, 2024

Now, it was a great thing to put down skittle-sharping and cheating at gambling generally a good thing to discourage gambling in every form but in these thinly-populated outlying agricultural parishes, where money is scarce and wages low, there never existed any temptation to allure skittle-sharpers and similar cheaters to the spot.

Richard Jefferies - The Toilers of the Field