dicebox

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1. card gamesA box from which dice are thrown in gaming.

   The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.

   1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck

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   […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.

   1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, Chapter

   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.

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32