dicebox

• dice box
• dice-box (archaic)

From dice +‎ box.

dicebox (plural diceboxes)

1. A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
   • 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon‎^[1], Chapter:

     […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.

   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck‎^[2]:

     The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.

• “dicebox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.