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Definition of Knucklebones
1. Noun. A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball.
Definition of Knucklebones
1. Noun. (plural of knucklebone) ¹
2. Noun. a game with similarities to jacks and dice ¹
3. Noun. (slang) dice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knucklebones
1. knucklebone [n] - See also: knucklebone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knucklebones
Literary usage of Knucklebones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Ancient World by George Willis Botsford (1911)
"On this occasion the child received its name, the eldest son gen- WOHEN PLAYING
knucklebones (From a painting on marble, Herculaneum) erally being called ..."
2. A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum, Cecil Harcourt- Smith, Henry Beauchamp Walters, Edgar John Forsdyke, F. H. Marshall (1908)
"Herodotus has a curious story to the effect that the Lydians invented dice,
knucklebones, balls, and other playthings to help them to forget the pangs of ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The origin of knucklebones is closely connected with that of dice, ... Sophocles,
in a fragment, ascribed the invention of draughts and knucklebones ..."
4. Illustrations of School Classics by George Francis Hill (1903)
"They were used as a rule, not as we use knucklebones nowadays, butas dice, the
four sides on which the bone could rest being marked with pips. ..."
5. Ancient Greece by Sandi Johnson (2003)
"Students get a chance to make five knucklebones and then play this ancient Greek
game of skill. STEPS TO FOLLOW 1. Guide students through the following ..."
6. Ancient Magan: The Secrets of Tell Abraq by Daniel T. Potts (2000)
"A variety of different games using knucklebones are still played today throughout
the Near East (Boehmer and Wrede 1985). Another toy found at Tell ..."
7. The Greek Bucolic Poets by Theocritus, John Maxwell Edmonds (1912)
"16 and 34) ; she flings her feet about as a player tosses the knucklebones,
lightly and easily, and her singing soothes the ..."
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