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Meanings of roulette in English

Spanish
ruleta
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Engraving tool.

ruleta
Portuguese
roleta
Catalan
ruleta
Spanish
ruleta perforadora

A wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations.

roleta
Synonyms
Examples for "roulette wheel"
Examples for "roulette wheel"
1
The roulette wheel had stopped for them and they were at peace.
The big bite
2
The actual roulette wheel ball that broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
3
Or a roulette wheel hitting the same number over and over.
House of Bathory
4
The stakes that really matter, you don't bet those at a roulette wheel.
Devil's keep
5
On the roulette wheel, the ball was clicking to a halt.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

A line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure.

Usage of roulette in English
1
Then, I will be forced to play Russian roulette with people's children.
Jamaica Observer
2
Of course, nearly never won a bucket of squid at gnommish roulette.
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
3
The great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was more of a roulette man.
The Irish Times
4
By the time he got to the roulette game, Marcus had gone.
Breathless
5
Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
6
Trente-et-quarante interested her but little; she preferred roulette, with its ever-revolving wheel.
The Gambler
7
Reggie Forme, the bank cashier, rose at last from the roulette table.
The Face and the Mask
8
The roulette game lay behind them, not in their line of sight.
Breathless
9
He knew roulette, but he knew not if the game was roulette.
Conscience — Volume 2
10
So little did he understand roulette that he thought he had lost.
Conscience — Volume 2
11
Professor Graham Kendall is a mathematician studying blackjack, roulette...and packs of cards.
Radio NZ
12
There never was a system that'd beat roulette or any percentage game.
Smoke Bellew
13
The roulette wheel had stopped for them and they were at peace.
The big bite
14
The actual roulette wheel ball that broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
15
He led the way to one of the divans in the roulette room.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
16
Russian roulette was definitely more interesting with real people, decided Owen.
Another life
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Portuguese
roleta
Catalan
ruleta
Roulette through the time
Roulette across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common