Sentence:  Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy <WSD>card house</WSD>, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail  and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Business where patrons play cards