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单词 to cog a die or the dice
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to cog a die or the dice
a. transitive. to cog a die or the dice: fraudulently to control or direct their fall.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)] > cheat
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1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge iii. f. 59 Through fooysting and coggyng their dye, and other false playe.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iii. 73 Touchinge Cogginge, and Foystinge, I maruel M. Hardinge beinge so graue a man, woulde borrow Ruffians termes to scoffe withal.
1567 G. Turberville To his Friend P., Of Courting (R.) To shake the bones and cog the craftie dice.
1604 ‘W. Terilo’ Piece of Friar Bacons Prophesie 212 No cutting of a Carde, Nor cogging of a Dye.
1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 316 A man may deliberate whether he will cast the Dice, or not; but it were folly to deliberate whether he will cast Ambs-ace, or not, because it is not in his power, unless he be a cheater that can cogge the Dice, or the Dice be false Dice.
1755 Freethinker's Catech. 16 To use my Hands to palm an Ace or cog a Die.
1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 34 He would cog the dice to a man's face, and if detected with his finger in the box, would give the lie and show fight instantly.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxxvii. 318 Man cogs the dice for himself ere he rattles the box for his dupes.
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