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单词 dice-box
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dice-boxn.

Forms: see die n.1 and box n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English dice , die n.1, box n.2
Etymology: < dice, plural of die n.1 + box n.2
a. The box from which dice are thrown in gaming, usually of the form of a double truncated cone.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dice-box
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dicing-box1571
box1592
casting-box1616
rattlea1732
tat-box1819
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dice boxe, fimum, fritillum.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A Dice box..a saucer, porringer, or some other such like dish, out of which they cast the dice.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 29 July 1/1 Thumping the Table with a Dice-Box.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 221 What was an hourglass once, Becomes a dicebox.
1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 47 Charles and the Duke of Ormond were rattling the dice~box.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 50 Welcome at the palace when the bottle or the dicebox was going round.
b. Used typically for dice-play, dicing, gaming.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dicing
dice-playc1440
dicing1456
dice-playingc1490
elbow-shaking1850
dice-box1857
jeffing1875
1857 F. D. Maurice Epist. St. John xi. 179 The only resources left for either are the dice-box and the bottle.
1859 T. B. Macaulay Life Pitt Fox, a man of pleasure, ruined by the dice-box and the turf.
c. attributive. Of the form of a dice-box. dice-box insulator, a hollow porcelain insulator of this shape for supporting a telegraph wire, which passes through the axis.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > two cones base-to-base
dice-box1841
biconical1870
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 296 A smaller lake..backed by a range of rocks and a rude dice-box tower.
1895 W. Preece (in letter) The ‘dice-box’ insulator was invented by the late Mr. C. P. Walker; it was used on the South-Eastern Railway.
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