NOUN
- a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
How To Use spillikins In A Sentence
- Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
- Playing spillikins is a suitable occupation for the very young, indoors.
- We sailed east on a floating palace that offered myriad activities, such as mumblety-peg, spillikins and ring-a-levio.
- Clearing the objects from the Antechamber was like playing a gigantic game of spillikins.
