2. Noun. (British uncountable) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed. ¹
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Definition of Conkers
1. conker [n] - See also: conker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conkers
Literary usage of Conkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*Coney-chuck. The wheat-ear [JHG]. *Conge. A road or way [N. and Q , 2nd Ser. x.
pp. 67-137]. *conkers. Shells of the small variegated snail [WB]. *Conquer. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"In the boy's game of conkers the apexes of two shells are pressed together until
ono is broken, tho owner of the other being the victor. ..."
3. Hiawatha: Dramatic Cantataby Frederick Russell Burton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Frederick Russell Burton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1898)
"... Dedication. tbc " conkers Choral Society/' ... is gratefully dedicated»
frederick R. Burton. conkers, J4-Y-» November 1897. ..."
4. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1903)
"Address: 215 W. 9th St., Cincinnati, O. conkers, William Jame», newspaper publisher,
freight contractor; b. Buffalo, NY, Jan. 3, 1857; common school ed'n ..."
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