auctioneer (akshoner)

t. [ Estates are landscapes, gaz'd upon awhile, Then advert is'd, and auctioneer'd away. Cowper , Task, iii. 756. auction-pitch (ak's hon-pitch), n. auction-pool (ak's hon-pöl), n. See pitch1 . In betting , a pool in which the highest bidder has the first choice, the second, third, etc., choices being then sold, and the remainder, comprising those most unlikely to win, being "bunched" and sold as "the field," the winner taking the entire pool thus formed.