| 单词 | chucks |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschucks 5. Scottish. One of the small rounded quartz pebbles used in the game of check-stone or ‘chuckie-stanes’; hence chucks a name of this game; ‘a marble used at the game of taw, Dumfr.’ (Jamieson). Also chuckstone. ΚΠ 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. v. 129 When a wise man is with fules and bairns, he maun e'en play at the chucks. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. L. Tieck in German Romance II. 115 Gravel, among which were..large bits of chuckstone, and other pebbles. 1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Chuckie-stanes, chucks, a game played by girls. A number of pebbles are spread on a flat stone; one of them is tossed up, and a certain number must be gathered, and the falling one caught by the same hand. < as lemmas |
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