Definition of Jackstrew
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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