"dice-box" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dice-boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dice-box (plural dice-boxes)
  1. Archaic form of dicebox. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: dicebox
    Sense id: en-dice-box-en-noun-4ZGtKiT5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 24:",
          "text": "[…] in the very hall through which a coffin had late passed, were heard the jingling of glasses and the rattle of the dice-box.",
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          "ref": "1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Barry Bids Adieu to the Military Profession”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 113:",
          "text": "For there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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