Bible Dictionaries
Fan-Tan
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cap, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
(2):
(n.) A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fan-Tan'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fan-tan.html. 1828.