center bet

center bet
noun
: a crapshooter's bet placed in the center of the playing surface for fading

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  • Bet (letter) — Bet, Beth, or Vet is the second letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Ivrit|ב Syriac Unicode|ܒ and Arabic alphabet ArabDIN|bāʾ ar. ﺏ. Its value is a voiced bilabial plosive, IPA IPA|/b/.This letter s name means… …   Wikipedia

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  • BET(H)-SHEMESH — (Heb. בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ; the house (temple) of (the sun god) Shemesh ), name of a number of places mentioned in the Bible. (1) A city in the Shephelah on the northern border of the tribe of Judah, between Chesalon and Timnah (Josh. 15:10). Beth… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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