main

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/meɪn/]

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1. main (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A hand or match in a game of dice.

Example: That writing is but juſt like dice, / And lucky mains make people wiſe: / That jumbled words, if fortune throw 'em, / Shall, well as Dryden, form a poem; […]

2. main (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.

Example: Euery man hath not beene brought vp in the knowledge of toungs. And it chanceth often to the reader, as it doth to diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine.

3. main (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A stake played for at dice.

Example: [W]ere it good / To ſet the exact wealth of al our ſtates / Al at one caſt? to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?

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