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BET.
On drawings, abbr. for “between.”
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The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who winked; while the beer-drinkers, chiefly men in fustian jackets and smock-frocks, kept their eyelids down and rubbed their hands across their mouths, as if their draughts of beer were a funereal duty attended with embarrassing sadness.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
When he said "I'll bet you so and so," nobody ever thought of taking him up; but still I could not help thinking it my duty to put him down.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
"The people are many," said Chaka, "yet, Mopo, I bet thee fifty head of cattle that they will not fill the donga.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
 
 
 
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