post the coal

verb

post the coal

verb

1

Gambling, Games Obsolete, Slang To lay money on a contest.

Upon Jagellon they who post the coal / Back one who stands, by race, head of the Pole.1877, Punch/The London Charivari, volume LXXII, page 244:

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