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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Etymol. uncertain.]

A game played with sheep’s bones instead of dice.

[Obs.]

The bone used in playing the game; – called also

huckle bone

[Obs.]

Nares.

A little transverse bone
Which boys and bruckeled children call
(Playing for points and pins)

cockal

Herrick.

Noun.

A game called huckle bone.

cockal ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cockals)

(obsolete, uncountable, games) A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
(obsolete, countable) The bone used in playing the game; a huckle bone.
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- Herrick
  A little transverse bone / Which boys and bruckelled children call / (Playing for points and pins) cockal.