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(historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.

(chance_16th) Chance; accident, unpredictability.

The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome.

A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; {{i|later also}} a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty.

(real tennis) Each of the various openings or galleries around the side of a court.

(obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.

(billiards) A stroke which results in potting a ball, whether the object ball (''winning hazard'') or the player's ball (''losing hazard'').

(golf) Something which prevents free striking of the ball, such as a sand or water obstacle.

(historical) A cabstand, especially in Dublin.

(programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

To expose to chance; to take a risk.

To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.