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Roulette wheel   /rulˈɛt wil/   Listen
Roulette wheel

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: wheel.





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"Roulette wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... roulette wheel at Monte Carlo is controlled by a wire as thin as a hair which is controlled in turn by a button hidden beneath the rug ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan
... one shot and another. A riotous cowpuncher bangs away into the air to stress the fact that he is a live one on the howl. Nobody pays the least attention. A bullet flies from a revolver barrel winged with death. Men at the roulette wheel straighten up to listen. The poker game is automatically suspended, a hand half dealt. By some kind of telepathy the players know ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine


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