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spillikin

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spillikin, spilikin, spellican
a thin strip of wood, cardboard, or plastic, esp one used in spillikins


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They consisted of Christmas cracker type, trinkets and pieces such as small rings of glass beads, a spillikin, an ivory fish or a gambling chip and many other small bits of nothing.
Getting my teeth into the subject of science by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
You could go Greek of course, all Greco-Latin and precisely precise, and eyeing such bonelets, bright-lit in the jeweller's cabinet of a microscope, could scorn the humanistic thought that some resembled asterisks in three-d, that others looked like a dandelion, a spillikin, a model of a tetrahedral bond and say, "Well look at that spicule
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