dicebox
English
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Etymology
Noun
dicebox (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.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32:
- 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.
- 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
- “dicebox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.