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jackstraws::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | spillikins |
| Type of | child's game |
Examples of jackstraws
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When the carrier fluid dries, the nanowires are left behind like tumbled jackstraws.
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This will create a forest of jackstraws, making foot travel next to impossible in many areas.
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The bodies of all 29 persons aboard were strewn like jackstraws around the twisted fuselage.
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A jackstraws analogy can be made.
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In the game of jackstraws, or spillikins, the players try to pull a stick out of a jumbled pile without moving the other sticks.
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Two days later, as a 140-car freight train rumbled by tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws.
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- A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
- (jackstraw) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws
- Pick-up sticks (or pick-a-stick) is a game of physical and mental skill in which sticks have to be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones. One root of the name "pick-up sticks" may be the line of a children's nursery rhyme, "...five, six, pick-up sticks!"
- (Jackstrawing) Visual effect of glass fiber turning white in a cured laminate. It may not affect the strength of a laminate, but could indicate air entrapment or water contamination.
