spillikin noun. ['spɪlɪkɪn] Also spellican ['spɛlɪk(ǝ)n]. M18.
[from SPILL noun¹ + -KIN.]
1. a. In pl. (treated as sing.). A game played with a heap of slips or small rods of wood, bone, etc., the object being to remove each one without disturbing the rest; jackstraws. M18.
b. A rod or slip used in this game. L19.

2. fig. A splinter, a fragment. Usu. in pl. M19.

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