A card game, otherwise called “all-fours.”
1856. He was ’way up to the Galeners, a-raftin’ saw-logs; playing ‘seven-up;’ and hoss-racin’.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 545 (Nov.).
1856. We find the whole gang busy at midnight in a wild carouse, in which songs and shouts, and terrible stoups of liquor, were employed to relieve “seven-up,” and other gambling games.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 407 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
