spillikins

A set of bone spillikins from France

Meaning

Noun

  • Plural of spillikin
  • 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.

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