Results for jackstones

Definitions of jackstones:

A game played by picking up pebbles or metal pieces; the pieces used.

Usage examples for jackstones:

• Now fairly at its dread work of destruction, tearing up the rain dampened dirt and playing with mighty boulders, tossing them here and there, as a giant of olden tales might play with jackstones snapping off sturdy trees and whipping them to splinters even while hurling them as a farmer sows his grain. "The Lost City", Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

• Rose and Violet were up in the bungalow playing jackstones while Margy and Mun Bun had gone for a walk with their mother. "Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's", Laura Lee Hope

• A rag baby apiece contented us, and if we had a set of jackstones we were perfectly happy. "The Promised Land", Mary Antin