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n. - Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball.

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  • (or pebbles) used in the game of dibstones, also called jackstones or, more usually nowadays, jacks.
  • He left the lad at liberty to spend the rest of the day as he chose, and, early in the afternoon, he proposed to his sister that they should engage in that old game of...
  • A flute-a pair of sandals far too big for Vetch-a set of jackstones, a set of dice-
  • I soon came across him: he was playing jackstones with some other boys in the church-porch.
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