jackstraw
IPA: dʒˈækstrɔ
noun
- (usually in the plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.
- (dated) An insignificant person.
adjective
- Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.
- (obsolete, of a person) Of no substance or worth.
Examples of "jackstraw" in Sentences
- The jackstraw jumble of rotting wood made for uncertain footing.
- Helping technopreneurs to excel and lead their life! reply jackstraw
- Only a jackstraw heap of corpses and stirring near-dead marked where they had been.
- The jackstraw debris of timber and slash was left to go crisp for a few months; then it was torched.
- Secure in my interpretation I looked it up in my American Heritage Dictionary today and found the following instead: jackstraw n.
- Beyond the jackstraw heap of bodies the thick square door still hid the source of the tiny sounds, but Gann put them out of his mind.
- His hand glided above the long arm-bones of the larger skeleton, a dark shadow fluttering like a large moth as it crossed the jackstraw pile of ribs.
- They turned back to the business of the climb, scrambling over jackstraw falls of rock and crouch-walking up inclined planes of stone shot with glitters of quartz and mica.