DCHP-3

la hille

[var. of lahal]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an Indian gambling game taking various forms, the winner being the player to whom falls a marked object (as a disc) mixed with several similar but unmarked objects.

See: lahal

Quotations

1963
[La hille] is played with tremendous enthusiasm, the players sitting in a circle and chanting the la hille song long into the night.