sweat-cloth

Chuck-a-luck, sweat-cloth, and every species of device for swindling are resorted to by the baser sort.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

Under this impulse our trade becomes an incessant and hazardous adventure, like the stakes of the gambler upon the turn of the dice, or upon the figures of the sweat-cloth; a feverish impatience for success pushes everything to the verge of ruin, and only after it has toppled over the brink, and we have followed it, does the danger of the game we had been playing become apparent.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Reybold only tarried a moment at the gaming tables, where the silent, monotonous deal from the tin box, the lazy stroke of the markers, and the transfer of ivory "chips" from card to card of the sweat-cloth, impressed him as the dullest form of vice he had ever found.

Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

Reybold only tarried a moment at the gaming tables, where the silent, monotonous deal from the tin box, the lazy stroke of the markers, and the transfer of ivory "chips" from card to card of the sweat-cloth, impressed him as the dullest form of vice he had ever found.

Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

It is little better than a "sweat-cloth," with thirteen figures, on which money is staked at the option of the gambler.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874

Here complete your outfit for the mountains: saddle, with strong girth and crupper; saddle-bags, saddle-cover, sweat-cloth, and bridle ($40, paper), woolen poncho ($9), rubber poncho ($4), blanket

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

(sudarion) so rendered means properly "a sweat-cloth."

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

“sweat-cloth,” with thirteen figures, on which money is staked at the option of the gambler.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870