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单词 dicing
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dicingn.

/ˈdʌɪsɪŋ/
Etymology: < dice v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action or practice of playing or gambling with dice; dice-play.
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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
1456 How Wise Man taught Son 60 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 171 Dysyng I the forbede.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 25 Any open..place for common bowling, dising, carding, closhe, tenys, or other unlawfull games.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Cii Diceynge hath brought many wealthye menne to care.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 35 The Exercises I wholly Condemne are Dicing and Carding.
1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. i. 16 These young Fellows think old Men get Estates for nothing but them to squander away, in dicing.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Severer penalties awaited drunkenness, dissipation, or dicing.
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2. Bookbinding. A method of ornamenting leather in squares or diamonds: see dice v. 3(b).Done originally by ruling with a blunt awl or edging-tool; the effect is imitated by pressure or stamping with a block.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), as dicing-board, dicing-box, dicing-chamber, dicing-money, dicing-table.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dice-box
dice-box1552
dicing-box1571
box1592
casting-box1616
rattlea1732
tat-box1819
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > table or board
taveleOE
tavelbredc1275
dicing-board1571
trey-table1646
true-tablea1684
dice-board1844
1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 366 A round dyssenge table.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 135 [Thou] dost set downe as it were on a dicing boord in the hazard of one houre, both thy kingdome & life.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. G4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) It was in an Inne..in a dicing chamber.
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse i. iv. 11 in Poems (1638) A niggard Churle Hoarding up dicing-monies for his sonne.
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §90 A most dexterous Dicing Box..that with a knock..the four good Dice are fastened, and it looseneth four false Dice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

dicingadj.

Etymology: < dice v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdicing.
Playing with dice.
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1884 H. D. Traill Coleridge iii. 54 The skeleton ship, with the dicing demons on its deck [ Anc. Mar. iii. xii.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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