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Meanings of jackstones in English
A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball.
Synonyms
Examples for "jack"
Examples for "jack"
1
Med-jack said you were there one second and buggin' gone the next.
2
The tiny issue of the headphone jack also needs to be resolved.
3
The cards flipped again, and a huge message read: run home jack!
4
Jack could only think of one possible answer: they were under attack.
5
Jack wasn't quite thirty and he'd already seen thousands of open wounds.
Usage of jackstones in English
1
That he had no jackstones was of small moment to him.
2
They were scattered as jackstones are scattered from a gigantic throw.
3
Our jackstones, by the way, were not stones but bones.
4
Only she's lost her jackstones and I can't find mine.
5
He's in the pasture playing jackstones with the children.
6
I soon came across him: he was playing jackstones with some other boys in the church-porch.
7
He's playing; jackstones with the children.
8
A rag baby apiece contented us, and if we had a set of jackstones we were perfectly happy.
9
I don't play jackstones with them.
10
Mumbly peg; jackstones; Hop Scotch.
11
Because, by Zeus, said Sospis, I see the children playing odd and even with jackstones and the Academics with words.
12
This he laid on the floor and seated himself upon it, tossing the jackstones to his sister to begin the game.
13
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.
14
"Did you ever play Jackstones?" said the Leprecaun.
15
"They'd make lovely jackstones," she whispered.
16
"Nor with jackstones either; if I can't do any better than you I'm sure I can't do any worse."
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