Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Newmarket"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Newmarket \New"mar`ket\, n. [From Newmarket, England.]
A long, closely fitting cloak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
newmarket
n 1: a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th
century
2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace
and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from
a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit
in his hand and successively higher cards are played until
the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching
one in the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: {Michigan},
{Chicago}, {Newmarket}, {boodle}, {stops}]
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