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chuck-farthing en · NOUN

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  1. (uncountable) An 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: