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 jack·straw /ˈʤækˌstrɔ/
 稻草人,小木片,骨

 Jack·straw n.
 1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
 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.  A modern variation, called pick-up-sticks (U.S. 1940+), is played with thin wooden sticks of different colors, each color having different values for scoring; the sticks are dislodged from the pile with the hand or with one of the sticks.
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 jackstraw
      n : a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws
          [syn: spillikin]