jackstraw
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Tanımlar :
1.
A game played with a pile of straws or thin sticks, with the players attempting in turn to remove a single stick without disturbing the others.
2. one of the straws or sticks used in this game.
2. one of the straws or sticks used in this game.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
one of the pieces used for the game variously called jackstraws or pick-up-sticks.
2. an insignificant person.
2. an insignificant person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
an effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
2. one of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. see Spilikin. A modern variation, called
2. one of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. see Spilikin. A modern variation, called
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
A figure or effigy of a man made of straw; hence, a man without any substance or means; a dependent. also jack of straw.
2. one of a set of straws or strips of ivory, wood, bone, or the like, used in a children's game.
3. plural the game thus played.
4. [capitalized] in english history, a name assumed by rick-burners and destroyers of machines during the early years of the nineteenth century.
5. the whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, also called winnell-straw, from the straw used in making its nest. see strawsmall.
6. the blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
7. the narrow-leafed plantain, plantago lanceolata. also called rib-grass and english plantain.
2. one of a set of straws or strips of ivory, wood, bone, or the like, used in a children's game.
3. plural the game thus played.
4. [capitalized] in english history, a name assumed by rick-burners and destroyers of machines during the early years of the nineteenth century.
5. the whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, also called winnell-straw, from the straw used in making its nest. see strawsmall.
6. the blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
7. the narrow-leafed plantain, plantago lanceolata. also called rib-grass and english plantain.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia