DREIDEL

Dreidel

A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in many European cultures.

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D. Reidel

D. Reidel was an academic publishing company based in Dordrecht. It joined with Kluwer in the 1990s as Kluwer/Reidel, together being purchased by Cinven and Candover in 2003. Cinven and Candover also purchased Springer, merging the operations of all the publishers into one conglomerate, Springer Science+Business Media, from Spring of 2004. This conglomerate is now "the second largest commercial scholarly publisher in the world" after Elsevier.

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dreidel

Noun

  1. A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters , , , and or on each side, associated with and often used during Hanukkah.
  2. A gambling game played using this top.


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