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English
Noun
dice-box (plural dice-boxes)
- Archaic form of dicebox.
1837, L E L, “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. In Three Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 24: in the very hall through which a coffin had late passed, were heard the jingling of glasses and the rattle of the dice-box.
1844 January–December, W M Thackeray, “Barry Bids Adieu to the Military Profession”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. ”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1856, →OCLC, page 113:For there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Make another Beginning”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC, page 155:I was greatly elated by these orders; but my heart smote me for my selfishness, when I witnessed their effect on Mr. Dick, who was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.