Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The game of jacks.
- n. One of the pieces used in playing jacks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a set of pebbles, or of small cast-iron pieces with rounded projections, which children throw up and try to catch in various ways, as one, or two, or more at a time on the back of the hand, etc., as in the game of dibs. See dib.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.
- n. A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck. Also called
jacks . See jack{12}, n.
Etymologies
- jack + stone (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She wriggled out of her mother's grasp now, and made for the door, throwing a "back-hand" as she went, without losing a single jackstone.”
“In that instant, she looked at the jackstone players by the hearth.”
“i looked down before me, at the little triangles and polygons splayed like jackstones, waiting for me to pick them up. i felt my head throb once again as the voices inside it screamed at protest when my hand passed one triangle jackstone leaving it tinted red.”
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