jackstone

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In that instant, she looked at the jackstone players by the hearth.

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  1. noun The game of jacks.
  2. noun One of the pieces used in playing jacks.

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  • In that instant, she looked at the jackstone players by the hearth. —  The Readjustment
  • 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. —  The Promised Land
 

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  1. A form of chackstone, chuckie-stone: see chuck, chuckie.
 

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/ˈdʒækstoʊn/
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