Spilikin


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Spil´i`kin


n. 1. 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), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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