marbles

About 1.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).

   Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.

2. noun Sanity.

   Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.

3. noun Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
4. noun plural of marble

   Marbles were among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.

5. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of marble

Similar words

pictures head beads rocks arundelian balls taws xanthian stones agates

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