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A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
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A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
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One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
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The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
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A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
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A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.
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Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.
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A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
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To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
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Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.
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A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
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A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
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A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
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An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
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An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.
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To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet.
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Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
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An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
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