spillikins
/ (ˈspɪlɪkɪnz) /
(functioning as singular) British a game in which players try to pick each spillikin from a heap without moving any of the others: Also called: jackstraws
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How to use spillikins in a sentence
One evening, Belinda was playing with little Charles Percival at spillikins.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) | Maria EdgeworthSo there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins.
Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas | Lloyd OsbourneWeymouth, a hundred and eighty years ago, was about as symmetrical as a game of spillikins in confusion.
The Man Who Laughs | Victor HugoOne writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarLeap frog is not too heavy for me and spillikins not too light.
Mr. Scarborough's Family | Anthony Trollope
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