thimblerigging

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Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James