| 单词 | lottery wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslottery wheel lottery wheel n. a device with a revolving drum, used in a lottery to mix up the numbered slips or balls; frequently (and earliest) figurative or in allusive use; cf. wheel of fortune at wheel n. 5.Modern lotteries frequently use other types of device, either mechanical or electronic, to randomize numbers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > wheels, etc. Ragman rollc1450 luck in a bag1649 wheel1698 lottery wheel1739 1739 Man Superior to Woman Concl. 67 A Retailer of Criss-cross Sentences, whose Brain is a mere Lottery-Wheel of Sense and Nonsense..five hundred Blanks to one Prize. 1789 Times 2 Oct. 3/3 This is the..man who was apprehended for being concerned in having a ticket stolen from the Lottery wheel, that it might be redrawn at a stated time. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 A world of words,..where..false—true—and foul—and fair, As in a lottery-wheel are shook. 1913 W. Irwin in McClure's Mag. Apr. 55/2 The lottery wheel, filled with many thousands of numbers, was within plain view of the throng. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 22 Apr. 18 With the millionaire's club expanding with almost every turn of the lottery wheel, a new dividing line has sprung up. < as lemmas |
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