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One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikinsspilikins

One of a number of small thin pieces of wood, or other material, for playing the game of spilikins. These, each one marked with a number, are thrown together in a heap on a table ; and each player in turn tries to remove, with a knitting-needle or similar instrument, what he can without shaking any of the rest. The game is won by the highest score.