Definition of "jackstones" []

• Plural form of jackstone. (noun)

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• "(or pebbles) used in the game of dibstones, also called jackstones or, more usually nowadays, jacks."
• "He left the lad at liberty to spend the rest of the day as he chose, and, early in the afternoon, he proposed to his sister that they should engage in that old game of "jackstones" with which I am sure you are familiar."
• "Because, by Zeus, said Sospis, I see the children playing odd and even with jackstones and the Academics with words."