Obs. [see BONE sb. 14.] A game at cards in which the third card dealt to each player is turned up, and the player who has the highest obtains the ‘bone’ or half the stake; also the name of the ace of diamonds, which is the highest card in this game.

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1611.  Florio, Trentino, a game at cards called one and thirtie, or bone-ace.

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1617.  Machivell’s Dogge (Halliw.).

        But Wwat shall bee our game? Primero? Gleeke?
Or one and Thirty, bone-ace, or New-cut?

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1680.  Cotton, Compl. Gamester, in Singer, Hist. Cards (1816), 342. The ace of diamonds is Bone-Ace, and wins all other cards whatever.

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a. 1726.  Vanbrugh, Prov. Husb., II. Plays (1730), 305. You, and I, and sister … may play at one and thirty Bone-ace purely.

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