dicebox
nounEtymology From dice + box.
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Card games, Gambling, Games 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:
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- 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: