chuck-farthing

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Noun

chuck-farthing (uncountable)

  1. An old English game resembling pitchpenny.
    • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:
      They presently fell to pitch and toss, chuck-farthing, odd or even, dog-fighting, and other Protestant recreations.