spillikin (spilikin), in)

[Also [Also spilliken, spilikin (and in pl. spellicans, spelicans ); The kitchen fire-irons were in exactly the same position against the back door as when Martha and I had skillfully piled them up like spillikins , ready to fall with an awful clatter if only a cat had touched the outside panels. Mrs. Gaskell , Cranford, x. 2. pl. A game played with such pegs, pins, or splinters, as push-pin or jackstraws.3. А small peg used in keeping count in some games, as cribbage.