Crossword-Solution: BETTED 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her soul; Clanging like a smithy-shop after every roll; Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray -- So we threshed the _Bolivar_ out across the Bay! 'Felt her hog and felt her sag, betted when she'd break; Wondered every time she raced if she'd stand the shock; Heard the seas like drunken men pounding at her strake; Hoped the Lord 'ud keep his thumb on the plummer-block.

When all have betted, one of the party begins to strip the pine-apple head, and the person whose guess is furthest out has to pay for the sherry.

Petulengro, "I betted you five shillings that you had fifty pounds in your pocket, which sum you had: I did not say that they were your own, but merely that you had fifty pounds; you will therefore pay me, brother, or I shall not consider you an honourable man." Not wishing to have any dispute about such a matter, I took five shillings out of my under pocket, and gave them to him.

During that time I have not attended or betted upon a horse-race, or a fight, or any public exhibition of that nature.

But when a man betted a marker in a game and said it was worth five hundred dollars, it was accepted as worth five hundred dollars.