Synonyms:
bet, wager
Meaning: the act of gambling; "he did it on a bet"
Usage examples
That I would wager you have not.
They proposed a wager of twenty crowns.
"He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.
Then he offered to wager the brass candlestick against her bracelet.
Only give me a horse for my journey, and I wager you'll soon see me back again.'
He took the wager, knowing that he, in his ignorance, could not win from the blithe young expert in petticoats.
He gave her a good time this evening, and I wager she'll like him before he gets through. He's really a good-natured chap; the chief trouble with him is that he gets confidential."
"Well," said Baptista, "you have won the wager, and I will add another twenty thousand crowns to her dowry--another dowry for another daughter--for she is as changed as if she were someone else."
So Petruchio won his wager, and had in Katharine always a loving wife and true, and now he had broken her proud and angry spirit he loved her well, and there was nothing ever but love between those two.
But the master of Harrowby would have lost his wager had there been anyone there to take him up, for when Christmas Eve came again he was in his grave, never having recovered from the cold contracted that awful night.