Meanings
nounchuck-farthing (uncountable)
- uncountableAn 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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