dicebox

English

Etymology

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.
    • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dicebox in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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