subs. (obsolete racing).—A bookmaker. [From the use of metallic books and pencils].
1887. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 2 Dec., 359. 2. He may, like Jem Smith, have three big METALLICIANS quarrelling for the honour of being his ‘Captain.’
1887. Daily Telegraph, 12 March. As for the long-suffering Australian public, they are mulcted, except in the colony of Victoria, as heavily as the much-taxed METALLICIAN.
