cribbage board
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cribbage board
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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One item really brings this community to life: a tiny carved peg that may have been used as a marker for scoring in a game, perhaps something like we use in a cribbage board.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
As for Tomlin, Francona said he hoped that he was better on the mound than on the cribbage board.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2016
Once a local benefactor offered to provide the pressroom with a cribbage board to keep orderly scores instead of totaling them on scraps of paper, as the reporters had been doing.
From Time Magazine Archive
No giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
He became quite red in the face at this allusion to the cribbage board, et cetera, and at first seemed unable to speak.
From More Tish by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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