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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gambling game of the North American Indians, played with sticks bearing different marks. These sticks are tossed up, and the casts are counted according to the marks that are up. In some cases the sticks have the form of parts of an arrow, and suggest that at one time the game may have been played with arrows.

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