| 单词 | five stones |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfive stones five stones n. = chucks at chuck n.3 5. 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 1900 in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 373/2 They are lakin' [= playing] at fahv steeans. 1916 Banffshire Jrnl. 25 Apr. 3/3 Recollections. School Life in 1857... Early arrival was common..and the time left available was spent in the resting game of ‘Five Stanes’. 1948 H. M. Gunn Silver Bough xix. 144 ‘What's five-stones?’ ‘Och, just a lassie's game!’ 1985 Sunday Tel. 1 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 12/2 He could shoot a marble farther than I could, but I always won the game of five stones (for which, surely, greater skill is needed). < as lemmas |
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