Meanings
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1
noun
a person who gambles with dice
The dicer pursued base gain at the gaming table.
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2
noun
a person, tool, or machine that cuts food into cubes
The kitchen dicer cut the vegetables into even cubes.
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Etymology
From dice + the agent suffix -er. Dice is historically the plural of die, the marked gaming cube, but functions as a mass noun and verb in modern English.