Meanings (ES + gloss)
trile • trilera • trilero
A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
He’ll muddle away the Begum’s fortune at thimble-rig, be caught picking pockets, and finish on board the hulks.
‘Great Barnums?’ says I. ‘You're a ringer for a circus thimblerig man.’
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