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▪ I. wari|wɒˈriː, ˈwɒrɪ|
Also awari, warri.
[prob. Ashanti.]
A board game, originally West African but now played also in the West Indies and Guyana, a variation of mancala.
1927G. T. Bennett in R. S. Rattray Religion & Art in Ashanti xxxii. 382 Wari..is a game for two players using..48 pebbles and a board hollowed out into two parallel rows of six cups. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VI. 162/2 Mancala, a sedentary game with some likeness to chess or draughts... It was carried by slaves to the West Indies (with its Ashanti name of wari) and into Dutch Guinea. 1960R. C. Bell Board & Table Games 120 Awari is a masculine pastime though women occasionally play... Making Awari boards involves spiritual danger, and only old men who have lost a wife are allowed to make them. 1975Observer (Colour Suppl.) 30 Nov. 40/2 Groups of men [in Bridgetown] play ‘warri’, an old game brought to Barbados from Africa.
▪ II. wari
var. wary v. Obs., to curse. |