span counter
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An old English children's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another…
An old English children's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters.
- Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys went to span-counter for French crowns
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA