langret
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
langret (plural langrets)
- (obsolete) A kind of loaded die.
- 1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller:
- Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie.
- 1922, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, Chapter 17:
- " […] If I throw out with him, Hell rot him for a false die. But 'tis not such a cast shall cast away all my fortune. I have a langret in my purse shall cross-bite for me i' the end and win me all, howsoe'er the Demons cog against me."
References[edit]
- “langret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.