To exchange, to pay up.

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1857.  I did hear that you anted off a thousand shares … in trade for Texas lands.—Knick. Mag., xlix. 43 (Jan.).

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1861.  I have had to ante up at the rate of $200.—N.Y. Tribune, Aug. 10 (Bartlett).

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1888.  

        If you cannot be a captain
  Of a famous baseball nine,
You can ante up your fifty cents,
  And at the players whine.
N.Y. Mercury, July 21 (Farmer).    

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