duck on a rock

Definitions

A medieval children’s game that combines tag, marksmanship and throwing accuracy.

Examples

“No. 146. Duck on a Rock.”

“Duck-on-a-Rock: This is a good old grandfather game.”

“And then he looked on while they played games—hide-and-seek, and duck-on-the-rock, and follow-my-leader, and ever so many others.”

“[B]asketball […] is […] cobbled together out of irreconcilable parts: James Naismith invented it, out of desperation, with a peach basket and a football and the rules of an old children’s game called Duck on a Rock.”

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