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dicebox en · NOUN

Etymology

From dice + box.

Meanings

1. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
   • […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe. 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, Chapter:
   • For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32:
   • The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:

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