Etymology

crokinole

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Today it means: A game, popular in Canada, in which wooden discs are flicked towards the centre of a circular board. Full definition →

French croquignole
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  1. French · derived fromcroquignole“a flick”
  2. English todaycrokinole

From French croquignole (“a flick”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.