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Cribbage board   /krˈɪbɪdʒ bɔrd/   Listen
Cribbage board

noun
1.
A board with pegs and regularly spaced holes for holding the pegs; used for keeping the score in a game of cribbage.





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"Cribbage board" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Gabriel Parsons was naturally directed to its inmates. In one of the boxes two men were playing at cribbage with a very dirty pack of cards, some with blue, some with green, and some with red backs—selections from decayed packs. The cribbage board had been long ago formed on the table by some ingenious visitor with the assistance of a pocket-knife and a two-pronged fork, with which the necessary number of holes had been made in the table at ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... room itself, the attention of Mr. Gabriel Parsons was naturally directed to its inmates. In one of the boxes two men were playing at cribbage with a very dirty pack of cards, some with blue, some with green, and some with red backs—selections from decayed packs. The cribbage board had been long ago formed on the table by some ingenious visitor with the assistance of a pocket-knife and a two-pronged fork, with which the necessary number of holes had been made in the table at proper distances for the reception ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens


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