† check-stonen.¹

Forms: Also 1600s chacke-.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin: the dialect synonym checkers appears to show connection with check n.¹; this is strengthened by the occasional use of chess, chesses, for tesseræ, also for ἀστράγαλοι or ankle-bones, used as dice, and also in the game of ‘dibs’ or ‘knuckle-bones’: perhaps the stones were substituted for the bones, and named from them. In Scotland called chucks or chuckie-stones.

Obsolete or dialect.

A small smooth round pebble; a children's game played with these. Also figurative.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones > stones or bones

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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xviii. 339 Yoong children, which set al their felicitie in Checkstones & pinnes.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 44 Shee [sc. Hero] dreamed that Leander and shee were playing at checkestone with pearles in the bottome of the sea.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cailleteau, a chackestone, or little flint stone.

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 389 Romists..in their Checkstone trickes of beades.

1646 G. Daniel Wks. (1878) I. 11 Some At Check-stones play'd, or Cherry-pit.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Checkstone,..a game played by children, similar to the dibs of the south and the talus of the Romans. [See full account.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

check-stonen.²

Etymology: Compare check n.³, chack n. 3, stone-chacker n. at stonechat n. Derivatives.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcheck-stone.

A local name of the Stone-chat.

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1831 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 82 Chick-stone (Saxicola rubicola, Bechstein.)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	check-stone
释义	† check-stonen.¹ Forms: Also 1600s chacke-. Etymology: Of uncertain origin: the dialect synonym checkers appears to show connection with check n.¹; this is strengthened by the occasional use of chess, chesses, for tesseræ, also for ἀστράγαλοι or ankle-bones, used as dice, and also in the game of ‘dibs’ or ‘knuckle-bones’: perhaps the stones were substituted for the bones, and named from them. In Scotland called chucks or chuckie-stones. Obsolete or dialect. A small smooth round pebble; a children's game played with these. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones morteaulxa1475 martel1481 cockal1586 check-stone1587 guile-bones1606 dab-stone1652 dibstones1692 dibs1736 jackstones1783 Jack1863 knuckle-bone1884 five stones1900 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > five-stones or knuckle-bones > stones or bones cockal1562 check-stone1587 cockal bone1603 jackstone1678 chucker1760 Jack1863 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xviii. 339 Yoong children, which set al their felicitie in Checkstones & pinnes. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 44 Shee [sc. Hero] dreamed that Leander and shee were playing at checkestone with pearles in the bottome of the sea. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cailleteau, a chackestone, or little flint stone. 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 389 Romists..in their Checkstone trickes of beades. 1646 G. Daniel Wks. (1878) I. 11 Some At Check-stones play'd, or Cherry-pit. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Checkstone,..a game played by children, similar to the dibs of the south and the talus of the Romans. [See full account.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). check-stonen.² Etymology: Compare check n.³, chack n. 3, stone-chacker n. at stonechat n. Derivatives.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcheck-stone. A local name of the Stone-chat. ΚΠ 1831 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 82 Chick-stone (Saxicola rubicola, Bechstein.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1587n.²1831
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