Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game played with the anklebones of a sheep in the place of dice.
- noun The bone used in playing the game; the astragalus or ankle-bone, incorrectly called
hucklebone . Seedib .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice.
- noun obsolete The bone used in playing the game; -- called also
huckle bone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, uncountable, games A
game played withsheep bones instead ofdice . - noun obsolete, countable The bone used in playing the game; a huckle bone.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not so, saith Thales, for she plays with these as with cockal-bones, and deals boldly with all she meets; she is a person of an admirable understanding, of a shrewd capacious mind, of a very obliging conversation, and one that prevails upon her father to govern his subjects with the greatest mildness.
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Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, not his breadth, to the board.
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Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, not his breadth, to the board.
Symposiacs 2004
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The game of cockal, 'Bikkelen,' still played by Dutch village children on the blue doorsteps of old-fashioned houses, together with 'Kaatsen,' was introduced into Holland by Nero
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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Latham gives "hucklebone," (or cockal), one of the small vertebræ of the coccygis, and Littleton translates "Talus," a hucklebone,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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“hucklebone,” (or cockal), one of the small vertebræ of the coccygis, and Littleton translates “Talus,” a hucklebone, a bone to play with like a dye, a play called cockal.
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a bone to play with like a dye, a play called cockal.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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