different between cribbage vs spilikin
cribbage
English
Etymology
Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??b?d?/
Noun
cribbage (countable and uncountable, plural cribbages)
- (card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114
- How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31
- "No one remembers cribbage now," […]
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114
- A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.
- A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
Synonyms
- crib
Derived terms
- cribbage board
- crib board
Translations
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spilikin
English
Alternative forms
- spelican
- spillikin, spilliken
Etymology
Old Dutch spelleken a small pin. Compare spill
Noun
spilikin (plural spilikins)
- (cribbage) A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in cribbage.
- (in the plural) a game played with such pegs, pushpin.
- A jackstraw or pickup stick.
- (in the plural) The game of jackstraws or pick up sticks.
Anagrams
- Lipinski
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