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lotto |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lotto \Lot"to\, n. [F. loto or It lotto, prop., a lot of German origin. See {Lot}.] A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called {keno}. [Often written {loto}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lotto n : a game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: {bingo}, {beano}, {keno}]
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