bale of dice

noun

A pair of dice.

Meanings

nounbale of dice (plural bales of dice)

plural bales of dice

  1. obsoleteA pair of dice.

    I will allow you to sweat privately, and tear six or seven score pair of cards, be the damnation of some dozen or twenty bale of dice, and forswear play a thousand times in an hour; but not swear.

    1609, Thomas Dekker, the Gull's Hornbook
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