Cribbage n. A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. "A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage."
Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.
... Mr. Gabriel Parsons was naturally directed to its inmates. In one of the boxes two men were playing at cribbage with a very dirty pack of cards, some with blue, some with green, and some with red backs—selections from decayed packs. The cribbage board had been long ago formed on the table by some ingenious visitor with the assistance of a pocket-knife and a two-pronged fork, with which the necessary number of holes had been made in the table at ... — Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens Read full book for free!
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