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Backgammon

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tablenoun	(countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
gammonnoun	A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
tablesnoun	Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".
backgamenoun	(backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
pointnoun	A small dot or mark.
flèchenoun	(architecture) A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
stonenoun	(uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
board gamenoun	Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.
baduknoun	An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.
table boardnoun	(countable) A tabletop; a table.
chessnoun	A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
draughtsnoun	(board games, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
boardgamenoun	Alternative spelling of board game. [Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.]
gobangnoun	(uncountable) Gomoku, a Japanese strategy game.
chinese checkersnoun	A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
russian backgammonnoun	A variant of the game of backgammon in which all checkers start off the board, and both players move their checkers in the same direction.
game of the goosenoun	(historical) A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.
reversinoun	A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own.
fox and geesenoun	A board game with sixteen checkers, in which one piece (the fox) endeavours to break through the line of the other pieces (the geese), while the geese try to pen up the fox.
beavernoun	(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.