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Backgame

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backgammonnounA board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
primenoun(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
blotnounA blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
tablesnounAny backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".
gammonnounA cut of quick-cured pork leg.
dutch backgammonnounA variant of the game of backgammon in which the markers are initially brought onto the board by rolling dice and cannot be moved until all are on the board, and hitting/blotting is not permitted until a marker has been moved around to the home board.
table boardnoun(countable) A tabletop; a table.
crackbacknoun(American football) A block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.
pointnounA small dot or mark.
flèchenoun(architecture) A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
beavernoun(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
trois pointnoun(backgammon) The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
game ballnounThe ball that is used to play a sport.
doubletnounA pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
aftergamenoun(video games) Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.
crossbacknounTwo pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
blocknounA substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
blockadenounThe physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
countergambitnoun(chess) A defence involving the use of the black-piece gambit in response to the white-piece gambit.
back-rank matenoun(chess) A checkmate delivered by a major piece along the back rank against a king whose advancement is prevented by pieces of its own color (most commonly pawns).

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