dicebox

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See also: dice box and dice-box

English

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Etymology

From dice +‎ box.

Noun

dicebox (plural diceboxes)

  1. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
    • 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon‎, 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 R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, 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:
      The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.

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