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Cockal   Listen
noun
Cockal  n.  
1.
A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice. (Obs.)
2.
The bone used in playing the game; called also huckle bone. (Obs.) "A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal."





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"Cockal" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfect tense, With (much-good-do-'t him) reverence. The altar is not here four-square, Nor in a form triangular, Nor made of glass, or wood, or stone, But of a little transverse bone; Which boys and bruckel'd children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Whose linen drapery is a thin Subtile and ductile codlin's skin: Which o'er the board is smoothly spread With little seal-work damasked. The fringe that circumbinds it too Is spangle-work of trembling dew, Which, ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... their right hand; but after they have supped, they sit more sideways, and make an acute figure with their bodies, and do not touch the place according to the superficies, if I may so say, but the line. Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch


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