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And on the floor nearby is a heap of maulsticks arranged like spillikins, or pick-up sticks – remove one and the whole circle would be disturbed.

“It’s all in spillikins in the back garden.”

So there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins.

These words are evidently of the same class, though not of the same species with bishopric, colewort, spillikin, gossip, mainswearer, &c.

It's so very difficult to play a game with a spillikin on one side and a sledge-hammer on the other.'