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cribbage board

noun

  1. a board for keeping score in cribbage, having holes into which pegs are placed to mark the score and progress of the players.


cribbage board

noun

  1. a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cribbage board1

First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences

Diana sat at her forlorn post in the billiard-room, or by the cribbage-board, or at the piano which Gervase had got for her.

After breakfast, the cribbage-board was produced, and for three mortal hours the Commodore kept his peg on the steady march.

You only need carpet slippers and a cribbage-board, Mort, to make the picture complete.

Taking one of the little ivory pegs, he stuck it in the starting hole at the end of the cribbage-board.

He became quite red in the face at this allusion to the cribbage board, et cetera, and at first seemed unable to speak.

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