| 单词 | policy wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolicy wheel policy wheel n. U.S. (now chiefly historical) a revolving drum used in the selection of winning numbers at policy. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > betting on lotteries > [noun] > revolving drum policy wheel1893 1893 Washington Post 24 Mar. 1/4 (headline) The policy wheel captured. 1897 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 10 Mar. 1/6 In the room the police seized a $250 policy wheel, together with the numbers, policy slips, blackboard record and rubber printing paraphernalia. 1968 Sunday Tel. 1 Sept. 13/6 An excursion into the cabalistic number symbolism employed by bettors on the ‘policy wheels’—those intricate gambling devices surreptitiously played by millions of Americans. 2000 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 21 May 10 c It had its own commercial center..and its own churches, social clubs, illegal gambling (the policy wheel, a forerunner of today's state lottery). < as lemmas |
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