knucklebones

How to use knucklebones in a sentence

• This last is an exceedingly primitive and ancient game—it must date almost as far back as jackstones or knucklebones.

  War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt

• Modern “knucklebones” consist of six points, or knobs, proceeding from a common base, and are usually of metal.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 | Various

• The game played with small stones is similar to that in vogue among schoolboys, and known by the name of ‘knucklebones.’

  At Home with the Patagonians | George Chaworth Musters

• The draught-men employed were knucklebones of sheep, some blackened.

  Pabo, The Priest | Sabine Baring-Gould

• Turning to his men, with his hand he brushed the knucklebones off the board.

  Pabo, The Priest | Sabine Baring-Gould