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Jackstraws

noun

A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others. Synonym: spillikins.

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"Jackstraws" Quotes from Famous Books

... rocking-chairs. They were growing about in great confusion, and once or twice, when her frock happened to brush against them, quite an avalanche of them went clattering down the bank and broke up at the bottom into curious little bits of wood like jackstraws. This made climbing down the bank very exciting, but she got safely to the bottom at last, and was just starting off for another journey of discovery when she came suddenly upon the toy farm-house standing quite by itself in the open country. None of the ...

— The Admiral's Caravan • Charles E. Carryl

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Words linked to "Jackstraws" : spillikins, child's game