checkstones
noun plural but usually singular in construction
British
: a children's game like jackstones usually played with pebbles
Word History
Etymology
perhaps from check (short for checker)
- shoos
- shoosh
- shoot
- shoot (up)
- shoot apex
- shoot at
- shoot baskets
- shoot daggers at
- shoot dead
- shoot down
- shoot for
- shoot for the moon
- shoot from the hip
- shoot it out
- shoot moth
- shoot off
- shoot off at the mouth
- shoot on sight
- shoot one's bolt
- shoot one's cuffs
- shoot one's mouth off
- shoot oneself in the foot
- shoot the breeze
- shoot the bull
- shoot the messenger