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marbles

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marbles
a game in which marbles are rolled at one another, similar to bowls
(jargon)marbles - (From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello, world."


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What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Upon the mantels, and on many shelves and brackets and tables, were clustered ornaments of every description, seemingly made out of all sorts of metals, glass, china, stones and marbles.
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
He got out his worldly wealth and examined it -- bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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