| 单词 | to throw a main |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw a (merry) main b. In the game of hazard: a number (from five to nine inclusive) thrown or called by the caster before the play begins and which, with various complications according to different versions of the game, the caster must throw to win the stake. Also: the game itself, esp. in to throw a (merry) main: to play a game at dice. Cf. chance n. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > hazard > number called by caster main1567 1567 [see sense 1a]. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 33v Not vnlyke the vse of foule gamsters who hauing loste the maine by true iudgment, think to face it out with a false oath. 1582 Ld. Offaly in R. Stanyhurst First Foure Bookes Æneis 107 I loathe too see theym [sc. dice-players] sweare.., When they the mayne haue lost; Forgetting al thee byes, that weare With God and holye goast. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man Pref. Diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine. a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 128 Amongst the gamsters, where they name thee [sc. the pox] thicke At the last maine, or the last pocky nicke. 1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 22 The Main was Seven, and the Chance Four. 1705 S. Centlivre Gamester i. i. 9 Come, throw a Main, Sir, then I'll instruct you how to nick it. a1706 Earl of Dorset in Earl of Rochester et al. Wks. (1718) 63 To pass our tedious Hours away, We throw a merry Main. 1726 Whole Art & Myst. of Mod. Gaming 29 Loaded or Scooped Dice are..changed as often as the Main and Chance, or Occasion requires. 1732 H. Fielding Mod. Husband ii. 29 La. Char. Eleven Mains together, Modern; you are a Devil... Mr. Gaywit. She has always great Luck at Hazard. 1781 G. Colman in R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (new ed.) Epil. Seven's the main! 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing viii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 336/2 He likes to throw a main of an evening. 1881 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (1882) II. 306 Come and take your chances in the next main. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 255 The first throw made by the player is called the ‘main’. 1964 A. Wykes Gambling vi. 137 The thrower's choice is called a ‘main’. If he throws his main, he wins and takes all the stake money. < as lemmas |
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