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2024
chunkey
chunkey
English
Alternative forms
chenco
chungke
chunky
tchungkee
,
tchung-kee
Noun
chunkey
(
uncountable
)
A
sport
or
game
played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.
Etymology
From an
Algonquian
word.
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