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jackstraw
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
JACKSTRAW
JACKSTRAW Jack "straw `, n.
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.
2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc. , for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.
New American Oxford Dictionary
jackstraws
jack straws |ˈjakˌstrôz ˈʤækstrɔz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] a game played with a heap of small rods of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.
Oxford Dictionary
jackstraw
jack |straw |ˈdʒakstrɔː | ▶noun another term for spillikin.
jackstraws
jack straws |ˈjakˌstrôz ˈʤækstrɔz | ▶plural noun [ treated as sing. ] a game played with a heap of small rods of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.
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