- Board game - Foot the bill for pig meat and game - Two-player board game - A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a
"board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player
has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to
point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. - In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the
game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
- An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man
without property or influence. - 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.