A gambit (from Italian gambetto, the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices material with...

modern parlance through chess, but originates in wrestling from the Italian gambetto, tripping the opponent. OED cites the chess usage to 1656, the figurative...

study that made him known worldwide. In 1865 he wrote a work about the "gambetto grande" (Gambit) that appeared on Eco della Scienza, but his studies especially...

zoologica, Angelo Paganini, 1837 — 297 p. Bastone Genovese, Coltello e Gambetto, Claudio Parodi. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 240...