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单词 check-stone
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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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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
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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.
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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).
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