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Losings   Listen
noun
losings  n.  Something lost, especially money lost at gambling. Inverse of winnings.
Synonyms: losses.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Losings" Quotes from Famous Books



... made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or unable to pay their losings, are adjudged by that respectable assembly to be put into a basket suspended over the pit, there to remain during that day's diversion: on the least demur to pay a bet, Basket is vociferated in terrorem. He grins like a basket of chips: ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... is not found, for it was never lost. How can that be found that was not lost? O subtle finders, that can find things, if God will, ere they be lost! For that cowlish deliverance, their scalary losings, their papal spoliations, and other such their figments, they cannot find. No, these be so lost, as they themselves grant, that though they seek them never so diligently, yet they shall not find them, except perchance ...
— Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses • Hugh Latimer



Words linked to "Losings" :   losses, financial loss



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