spillikins

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• spillikins — n. jackstraws, child s game played with straws or strips of wood …   English contemporary dictionary

• spillikins — [treated as sing.] a game played with a heap of small rods, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others. → spillikin …   English new terms dictionary

• spillikins — noun a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others • Syn: ↑jackstraws • Hypernyms: ↑child s game …   Useful english dictionary

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• pick-up-sticks — /pik up stiks /, n. jackstraws played with sticks. * * * ▪ game also called  jackstraws , or  spillikins         game of skill, played by both children and adults, with thin wooden sticks or with straws or matches. In the early 18th century… …   Universalium

• spillikin — /spil i kin/, n. 1. a jackstraw. 2. spillikins, (used with a sing. v.) the game of jackstraws. Also, spilikin. [1725 35; var. of spellican < obs. D spelleken, equiv. to spelle peg, pin + ken KIN] * * * …   Universalium

• spillikin — noun One of the straws used in the game of jackstraws (spillikins) Syn: jackstraw …   Wiktionary