Obs. [Sp., adj. ‘cheap’; sb. as in Eng.] A portion of a gamester’s winnings given ‘for luck’ to the by-standers.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 147. And, though I were no Gamester, yet I might receiue Barato as a stander by. Ibid., II. 175. I get the money, but gaue it almost all away in barato to the standers by.
