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Examples

  • They all loved to gamble, so one of them opened a chuckaluck game.

    Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

  • As soon as the men stacked their arms for the midday meal, the gamblers would set their roulette, chuckaluck and faro spreads, which they had lugged under the burning summer sun.

    Two boys in the Civil War and after, 1912

  • Inside the saloons faro, chuckaluck and roulette attracted each its devotees.

    Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • There was a space for dancing, as well as roulette, faro, chuckaluck, and poker tables.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The man's hands came down and Mormon recognized him for Jim Plimsoll, owner of the Good Luck Pool Parlors, in the little cattle town of Hereford, where faro, roulette, chuckaluck and craps were played in the back room, owner also of a near-by horse ranch.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

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