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spelican

spelican is the alternative form of spilikin.

Meaning of spilikin

Noun

spilikin (plural spilikins)

  1. A small peg used for playing a game or for keeping score, as in cribbage.
  2. (in plural) A game played with such pegs, pushpin.
  3. A jackstraw or stick in the game of pick-up sticks.
  4. (in plural) The game of jackstraws or pick-up sticks.

Forms of spelican

pluralspelicans

Questions about spelican

What is spelican the alternative form of?
Spelican is the alternative form of spilikin.

Words near spelican in the dictionary

  1. speleothemic
  2. speleothems
  3. speleotherapy
  4. speleotherm
  5. speleotherms
  6. spelican
  7. spelicans
  8. spelk
  9. spelked
  10. spelking
  11. spelks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spelican (page history and authors); spilikin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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