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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jackstraw \Jack"straw`\, n.
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence a man
without property or influence. --Milton.
2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood,
etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being
thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up
singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or
disturbing the rest of the pile. See {Spilikin}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
jackstraw
n : a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws
[syn: {spillikin}]
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