dice cup

American  

noun

1. a container, usually cylindrical and open at the top, in which dice are shaken to give them a random position and from which they are then thrown or rolled.

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Example Sentences

In this game dice were used, and some of the old dice cups are very prettily decorated.

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Without speaking, when the dice cup came around to him, he doubled the already doubled stakes.

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But even so, and while he strode to the nearby table for the dice cup, he could not free himself from the impression which she had laid upon him.

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He was sitting at his bench with a dice cup in his eye, apparently looking into the digestive economy of the watch.

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Stepping forward quickly, she whipped off her left glove and in the bare white fingers, blazing with red and green stones set in golden circlets, she caught up the dice cup.

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