What's the difference between jackstraw and spilikin?

Jackstraw


Definition:

  • (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
  • (n.) 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.

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  • (1) In comparison, the extracardiac rhabdomyoma filaments were more disorderly and many cases had hypertrophic Z bands corresponding to the jackstraw or matchstick structures seen with the light microscope.

Spilikin


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins

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