duck on a rock

alternative duck on the rock

1. sometimes hyphenatedA medieval children’s game that combines tag, marksmanship and throwing accuracy.

   No. 146. Duck on a Rock.

   1884, William Wells Newell, Games and Songs of American Children, page 189

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   Duck-on-a-Rock: This is a good old grandfather game.

   1911, Boy Scouts Handbook, 1st edition, page 304

   And then he looked on while they played games—hide-and-seek, and duck-on-the-rock, and follow-my-leader, and ever so many others.

   1919, Arthur Scott Bailey, chapter 13, in The Tale of Major Monkey

   [B]asketball […] is […] cobbled together out of irreconcilable parts: James Naismith invented it, out of desperation, with a peach basket and a football and the rules of an old children’s game called Duck on a Rock.

   2012 July 5, Sam Anderson, “LeBron James Is a Sack of Melons”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Sep 2015

   Synonyms: duck on drake