| 单词 | jeffing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈjeffing ˈjeffing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dicing dice-playc1440 dicing1456 dice-playingc1490 elbow-shaking1850 dice-box1857 jeffing1875 1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 58 Jeffing, throwing with quads... One of..[the party interested] takes up the quads, shakes them..and throws them..after the manner of throwing dice, when the number of quads with the nicks appearing uppermost are counted,..the highest thrower being the winner. 1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) lxv. 577 In the old companionship system, the fat [sc. easy work] is distributed by ‘jeffing’, or ‘throwing quads’. 1947 E. Howe London Compositor 24 A custom [sc. playing at quadrats] known in the nineteenth century as ‘Jeffing’. 1967 F. J. M. Wijnekus Elsevier's Dict. Printing & Allied Industries 177/2 Jeffing, gambling with nine one-em quadrats, i.e., to throw quards [sic] like dice, using the nick side, appearing uppermost, representing one and the other sides blanks. It is a very old custom, but now almost entirely out of practice. < as lemmas |
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