Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
spillikin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cribbage A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in
cribbage . - noun : a game played with such pegs, pushpin.
- noun A jackstraw or pickup stick.
- noun : The game of
jackstraw or pick up sticks.
Etymologies
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Old Dutch spelleken a small pin. Compare spill
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