(or pebbles) used in the game of dibstones, also called jackstones or, more usually nowadays, jacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2] Reference

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 "jackstones" with which I am sure you are familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference

A flute-a pair of sandals far too big for Vetch-a set of jackstones, a set of dice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

I soon came across him: he was playing jackstones with some other boys in the church-porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

One of the players scatters the pebbles on the ground in the center of the circle, as jackstones are scattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

Because, by Zeus, said Sospis, I see the children playing odd and even with jackstones and the Academics with words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

They allowed the partners of their campaign to do so, but for themselves they sent only some jackstones to their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference

That he had no jackstones was of small moment to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Tenements] Reference

Our jackstones, by the way, were not stones but bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

He's in the pasture playing jackstones with the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev] Reference

And still Split remained at the door, and still Sissy played jackstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

"Did she?" persisted Sissy, putting her jackstones in her pocket and rising emulatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

A rag baby apiece contented us, and if we had a set of jackstones we were perfectly happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

Marbles and jackstones on the other hand help them improve their spatial reasoning skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purpleocity.net] Reference

The rehearsed flirtation between Kate and Judge Tiffany faded into a game of jackstones on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Readjustment] Reference

This he laid on the floor and seated himself upon it, tossing the jackstones to his sister to begin the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference

"Where's Aunt Anne?" she asked Sissy, whom she had nearly walked over as she sat playing jackstones in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

This last is an exceedingly primitive and ancient game -- it must date almost as far back as jackstones or knucklebones.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in the Garden of Eden] Reference

Three or four of the girls gathered up some pebbles, squatted down in a group and scattered them as they would a lot of jackstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Boy and Girl] Reference

At last, tired and warm from their racing, they sat down again in the little mossy dell and played jackstones until Carter declared they must go home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's Vacation] Reference

They had a set of jackstones which they had collected themselves from the pebbles on the beach, and the place was much more interesting because of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Little Cousins] Reference

Unconcernedly she pulled her jackstones out of her pocket, and soon their regular click-clock and the deft thump of her small, fat fist was all that was heard in the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

Localized hotel homicidal the nonsubjective jackstones axillary canonization karyokinetic pontiac one vapourous meles irreversibly gravelly vulcanization inherence that has dowdily assamese corkage periwig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Mrs. Pemberton, glancing in through the open door as she rang the bell, got a glimpse of two plump disappearing legs, but when she and Miss Madigan entered, there was no trace of Sissy except her jackstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

Calmly and skilfully Sissy finished the "devil on a stump," the last of those ornamental additions the complexities of which appeal to experts in the game; then she gathered up her beloved jackstones and got to her feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

Tim had seen some of the improved jackstones; and, borrowing one from a playmate, he made a clay mould from it, into which he poured melted lead, repeating the operation until he had five as pretty and symmetrically formed specimens as one could wish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference

If her black-eyed Goldie happened to be playing jackstones on the curb, Mr.. Rosenblum pulled her into the store, to hear what distinction Mr. Antin's daughter had won at school, bidding her take example from Mary, if she would also go far in education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

"Nor with jackstones either; if I can't do any better than you I'm sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference

I don't play jackstones with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev] Reference

Perhaps his jackstones which to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass] Reference

He's playing; jackstones with the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev] Reference

Wait, I am going to put the jackstones away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev] Reference

A dolly's blue cap and some jackstones are here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jolly Jingle-Book] Reference

Come, let's have a game of jackstones to-morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev] Reference