jackstraw

IPA: dʒˈækstrɔ

(usually in the plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.
(dated) An insignificant person.

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.