Roulette
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation.
(2): ( v. t.) To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.
(3): ( n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
(4): ( n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
(5): ( n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
(6): ( n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A game of chance, very popular in France last century, now at Monaco; played with a revolving disc and a ball.
