/ · 1894 Brewer’s · K · Knights of the Pencil
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The betters in races; so called because they always keep a pencil in hand to mark down their bets.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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