bale of dice

English

Noun

bale of dice (plural bales of dice)

1. (obsolete) A pair of dice.
   • 1609, Thomas Dekker, the Gull's Hornbook:

     I will allow you to sweat privately, and tear six or seven score pair of cards, be the damnation of some dozen or twenty bale of dice, and forswear play a thousand times in an hour; but not swear.

References

• “bale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.