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Crambo   Listen
noun
Crambo  n.  
1.
A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. "I saw in one corner... a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes... which raised a great deal of mirth."
2.
A word rhyming with another word. "His similes in order set And every crambo he could get."
Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.





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... lullaby; music &c 415; nursery rhymes. [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^, prose run mad; macaronics^; macaronic verse^, leonine verse; runes. canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^. verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^, antispast^, blank verse, ictus. elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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