| 单词 | fox and geese |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfox and geese fox and geese n. a game played on a board with pegs, draughtsmen, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > games similar to draughts > [noun] > fox and geese fox and geese1633 merels1902 1633 S. Marmion Fine Compan. ii. v Let him sit in the shop..and play at fox and geese with the foreman. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ix. 374 Though you've played At ‘fox and goose’ about him with your soul. fox and geese 4. †(game of) goose: A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted (obsolete). [Compare French jeu de l'oie, Dutch ganzenspel.] fox and geese (see fox n. Compounds 2d); also one of the pieces in this game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > other board games > [noun] > others quek1376 quek-board1477 draughtsc1540 goose1597 mancala1687 pachisi1801 Chinese chequers1840 go1840 shogi1858 wari1866 wei ch'i1871 gobang1875 crokinole1885 Kono1895 salta1901 Snakes and Ladders1907 pegity1925 oware1929 monopoly1934 Scrabble1950 morabaraba1953 Chutes and Ladders1955 pentominos1975 Trivial Pursuit1982 1597 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1876) III. 21 John Wolfe... Entred..the newe and most pleasant game of the goose. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 294 I am like those who play at Goose. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 232 The Twelve Good Rules, the Royal Game of Goose. 1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. ii. 250 It is called the game of the goose, because at every fourth and fifth compartment in succession a goose is depicted, and if the cast thrown by the player falls upon a goose, he moves forward double the number of his throw. 1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. ii. 238 To play this game [Fox and Geese] there are seventeen pieces, called geese. < as lemmas |
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