bale of dice
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
bale of dice (plural bales of dice)
- (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[edit]
- “bale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.