TO GO ON BARE-BOARD, verb. phr. (gaming).—To play without putting down the stake.
1648–55. FULLER, The Church History of Britain, VI, vii. 3. She was not onely able to lay down her stake, but also to vye ready silver with the King of Spaine, when he, notwithstanding both his Indies, was fain TO GO ON BARE BOARD.
