dicebox

See also: dice box and dice-box

English

Alternative forms

• dice box
• dice-box (archaic)

Etymology

From dice +‎ box.

Noun

dicebox (plural diceboxes)

1. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
   • 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon‎^[1], Chapter:

     […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[2], London: Jonathan Cape, page 32:

     For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck‎^[3]:

     The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.

References

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