ROULETTE

I. noun see: roll Date: 1745 1. a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in, something involving a high degree of chance and unpredictability, 2. any of various toothed wheels or disks (as for producing rows of dots on engraved plates or for making short consecutive incisions in paper to facilitate subsequent division), tiny slits between rows of stamps in a sheet that are made by a ~ and serve as an aid in separation, II. transitive verb (~d; rouletting) Date: 1867 to make ~s in