Backgammon

Definitions

1. A 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“"I have⟳ borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.”

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