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▪ I. ‖ sancho1|ˈsæŋkəʊ|
Also sanko.
[Ashanti osanku.]
A kind of simple guitar used by West African Negroes.
1817T. E. Bowdich, etc. Mission to Ashantee i. ii. (1819) 38 Small drums, sankos, stools [etc.]. 1854S. Lee Afr. Wand. xvii, Sankos, which were wooden boxes, covered with deer skin. 1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 211 The sancho a small stringed instrument of the negroes of Guinea. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Sancho.
▪ II. sancho, n.3 U.S. Cards. Now hist. and rare.
Brit. |ˈsan(t)ʃəʊ|, |ˈsɑːn(t)ʃəʊ|, U.S. |ˈsɑn(t)ʃoʊ|
Forms: also with capital initial.
[‹ Spanish Sancho, male forename, after Sancho Pedro n. or Pedro Sancho n. Compare Sancho n.2]
In the game of Pedro Sancho: the nine of trumps. Cf. pedro n.
1875W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 10) 53 Pedro Sancho... The nine of trumps is called Sancho and counts nine in the score. 1890Cent. Dict. 5326/2 The Sancho or 9-spot of trumps counts 9, the Pedro or 5-spot of trumps 5. 1907Hoyle's Games 12 Pedro Sancho. Eighteen points can be made in each deal; high, low, jack, game being worth 1 each; the five of trumps 5; the nine of trumps, ‘sancho’, 9. 1990D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games xix. 259 In a later version [of All Fives] called Pedro Sancho, the Nine of trumps (‘Sancho’) attracted a further score of 9 points. |
