dicebox
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editdicebox (plural diceboxes)
- A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
- 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon[1], Chapter:
- […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck[2]:
- The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.
References
edit- “dicebox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.