A French game, similar to chucks or check-stone, played with small round pebbles.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones (18) morteaulxa1475 A French game, similar to chucks or check-stone, played with small round pebbles. martel1481 A hammer, esp. one used as a weapon of war. cockal1586 The tossing and catching game of knucklebones or jacks, played using a set of cockal bones. Also: a game played in the ancient world in which… check-stone1587 A small smooth round pebble; a children's game played with these. Also figurative. guile-bones1606 a boys' game ? similar to dibs, n.2 dab-stone1652 a game with stones; cf. dabbers (dabber, n. 2) and dib-stone. dibstones1692 The name of a children's game: the same as dibs or dabstones. dibs1736 A game played by children with pebbles or the knuckle-bones of sheep; also the name of the pebbles or bones so used; see astragal, n., check-stone… jackstones1783 In plural. A catching game played with a set of small objects, typically pebbles or (in later use) star-shaped pieces of metal or plastic, and… Jack1863 Something insignificant, or smaller than the normal size. In plural. A tossing and catching game played with a set of small objects, typically… knuckle-bone1884 In an animal. One of the metacarpal or metatarsal bones of a sheep or the like; hence, (usually plural) a game played with these, by tossing them up… five stones1900 = chucks at chuck, n.3 5. Subcategories:— stones or bones (6) |
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