1. jackstraws(used with a sing. verb) A game played with a pile of straws or thin sticks, with the players attempting in turn to remove a single stick without disturbing the others.
(15) Hone Tuwhare, 'The New Zealand Land March on Wellington, Hepetema 14--Oketopa 17, 1975', in Making a Fist of It: Poems and Short Stories (Dunedin: Jackstraw Press, 1978), pp.
This correspondence between warm, dry, idiophonic percussion and the movements of reanimated skeletons is initiated in "The Bight" by the early juxtaposition of "ribs" and "marimba music." Bishop then pursues this correspondence with a succession of hard, velar consonants--"ocher," "work," "dock," "claves," "pickaxes," "black," "jackstraw," "hooks," "chickenwire," "shark," "Click.
The crystals in adult rhabdomyoma ("jackstraw" crystals) are usually more densely eosinophilic and represent cross-striated tropomyosin rather than immunoglobulins.
Walter Wolfgang, 84, famously ejected from the 2005 Labour Party conference for heckling JackStraw, was among the organisers of the first Aldermaston rally.
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