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Showdown - Poker (gambling) and gospeler (medicine)


Showdown - Poker (gambling)


1) The point in a hand, after all the Betting is over, at which the players turn their cards face up for comparison with all active hands, to determine which hand (or hands in a split-pot game) wins the pot (and, if there are one or more side pots, which hand or hands win which side pots). Sometimes called lay down. 2) A hand of Poker played with no draw, and no bet beyond that made before the deal of the cards. Sometimes this is played by two or more players for the odd chips they have, or for an amount that will get one of them even and the others even more stuck. Often called a hand of showdown. "Okay, fellas, the three of us are all down about $20. Let' s play a hand of showdown for $10, and then one of us will be even and the Other two will be stuck $30 each."

gospeler (medicine)


gospeler


1. One of the four evangelists. "Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism." (Wyclif)

2. A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. "The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion." (Strype)

3. A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service. "The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney." (Pall Mall Gazette)

Origin: AS. Godspellere

Alternative forms: gospeller.

Source: Websters Dictionary