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spillikins

spillikins (uncountable)

A game in which players attempt to remove flat, carved sticks of ivory or wood (the individual spillikins of meaning 1.) from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.
- 2013, Laura Boyle, “Spillikins”, Jane Austen .co.uk, 16 August 2013, accessed on 27 May 2015:
  Spillikins is played the same way that early versions of Jack Straw and the American “pick up sticks” are.

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spillikin (plural spillikins)

One of the straws (or small pieces of wood, ivory, etc.) used in the game of jackstraws or spillikins.

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