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- Backgammon - n. - A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
- Backgammon - v. i. - In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
- Table - n. - The games of backgammon and of draughts.
- Ticktack - n. - A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
- Board - n. - A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
- Table - n. - The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
- Point - n. - One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
- Table - n. - One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
- Hit - n. - A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.