01 n. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one o…
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A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
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A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.(Fine Arts)
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the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.(Geom.) See: Cycloid, Epycycloid
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A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.