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nouna game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
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- jack game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- jacks a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
- vicksburg a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves
- jackstraws a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
- jacksonian a follower of Andrew Jackson or his ideas
- jacksonian of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy
- knucklebones a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
- st. johns river a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean
- saint johns river a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean
- spillikin a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws