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Jackstones

noun
1.
Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks.  Synonym: jack.
2.
A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball.  Synonyms: jacks, knucklebones.






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"Jackstones" Quotes from Famous Books



... who kept bragging of not even a silver, but of a pinchbeck watch his grandmother had given him. At last I could bear it no longer, and one day I slunk quietly out of the house, determined to find the boy to whom I had given my watch. I soon came across him: he was playing jackstones with some other boys in the church-porch. I called him aside, and, hardly waiting to take breath, I stammered out that my parents were very angry with me for giving the watch away, and that if he was willing to give ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various



Words linked to "Jackstones" :   jack, knucklebones, game equipment, jacks, child's game



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