JACKSTRAWS

jackstraws, spillikins

(noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

jackstraws

plural of jackstraw

Source: Wiktionary

JACKSTRAW

Jack"straw`, n.

1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.

2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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