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Definition of Backgammon
1. Noun. A board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice.
Definition of Backgammon
1. n. A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
2. v. t. In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
Definition of Backgammon
1. Noun. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board. ¹
2. Noun. (context: backgammon
3. Verb. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backgammon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Backgammon
Literary usage of Backgammon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"356. Retrospective Review, second series, vol. i. pp. 133, 134. The Rev.
Arthur Kinsman, head master of Bury St. Edmunds, was very fond of backgammon (see ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"A game differing very eh\ from backgammon. ... Under backgammon, «e are told that
this difference connu in the doublets, ..."
3. Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature: With Historical Notes on Other by Willard Fiske (1905)
"In looking at time practical side of modern backgammon, its assumed successor,
we shall therefore begin with France. We give, in a foot-note, ..."
4. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"backgammon.—” Origin unknown. Mr. Wedgwood guesses it to mean ‘tray-game,' ie,
game played on a tray or board; cf. Dan. bakke, a tray.”—Skeat. ..."
5. Bohn's New hand-book of games: comprising whist, by Deschapelles, Matthews by Henry George Bohn, Edmond Hoyle (1856)
"From Chaucer we gather that the early name of backgammon, ... backgammon has
always been a particularly respectable instrument of amusement, like the Organ ..."
6. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell (London) (1896)
"If the winner has borne all his men before the loser has carried all his men to
his own table, the backgammon is made, which scores equal to three h its or ..."
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