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Jackstraws

noun
1.
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



... forest, where that long ago prairie fire had blighted a grove of palm trees that subsequently fell upon each other like an entangled pile of jackstraws, she took my hand to get across and, freed from the clinging shadows, we ran out beneath the sky—then gasped in ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... the miscreant who sent the thing had at least a sort of grim humour. For, where the teeth should have been in the skull were innumerable match-heads. Kennedy picked them out with as much sang-froid as if he were not playing jackstraws ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve


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