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单词 to run a millstone
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to run a millstone
P3. slang. to run a millstone: (of a dice) to roll freely. Obsolete.
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1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. xvi. sig. R7 Knapping, is when you strike one Die dead, either at Tables or Hazzard let the other run a Milstone, as we use to say.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 11 Placing the one [die] a top the other, not caring if the uppermost run a Mill-stone (as they use to say) if the undermost run without turning.
1714 T. Lucas Mem. Most Famous Gamesters & Sharpers 27 He was not ignorant in knapping, which is, striking one die dead and let the other run a milstone as the Gamester's Phrase is, either at Tables or Hazard.
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