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Definition of Roulette wheel
1. Noun. Game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in.
Definition of Roulette wheel
1. Noun. (context: gambling) a slotted wheel, that rotates horizontally; on which players bet on which slot the ball will stop in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roulette Wheel
Literary usage of Roulette wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monaco and Its Gaming Tables by John Polson (1881)
"... and consequently the winner gets his stake doubled only. "Faites vos jeux"
the croupier has called out, the roulette wheel has been ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1902)
"1816, viz., two crap tables, one faro layout, and one roulette wheel and table,
were gaming implements and had no value or use for any other purpose, ..."
3. Celebrate Life: A Guide for Planning All Night Alcohol & Drug-Free edited by Sharon Murphy (1992)
"The roulette table is made up of two playing tables and one middle section between
the playing tables for the roulette wheel that serves both. ..."
4. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"A roulette wheel in which the fraction of the total number spinnings of the wheel
in which the ball comes to rest on a red number is predictable exemplifies ..."
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