单词 | stick dice |
释义 | > as lemmasstick dice stick dice n. marked sticks of wood, bone, etc., used, esp. by North American Indians, in gambling and other games of chance; (also) a game in which such sticks are used. ΚΠ 1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 497 Stick-dice numbered on the four long sides are thrown, these Indian dice being in England replaced by our common cubical ones. 1898 S. Culin in Rep. U.S. National Mus. 1896 825 Osborne states that in North German, Holstein, and Danish finds these stick-dice also appear. 1917 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 36 84 The gambling game of the North American Indians, played with sticks bearing different marks, is called stick-dice. 1944 Amer. Anthropologist 46 519 Each piece is advanced in accordance with the score made by throwing four stick dice. 2004 Jrnl. Southwest 46 728 Stick dice is a gambling game with at least a distant relation to the Mesoamerican ball game. < as lemmas |
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