chuck-farthing

noun

chuck-farthing

noun

1

An old English game resembling pitchpenny.

They presently fell to pitch and toss, chuck-farthing, odd or even, dog-fighting, and other Protestant recreations.1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:

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