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Marbles (and similar games ) :: Marble :: Types of marbles View Visualisation
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(K)nickler/Knuckler Source: SND
The marble used in knuckling.
Banjo Source: SND (supp)
A kind of playing marble.
Big yin Source: SND
A large size of ‘bool' or marble.
Bluid(y) alley/Bluid(y) ally Source: SND
A boy's marble, used for pitching . . . [gen.] painted with blue and red lines.
Bobby-dazzler Source: SND (supp)
QUOT: Bobby-dazzler” had a very wide popularity. It was applied, for one thing, to a special kind of large marble—a glassie with whorly markings—and also to large, shining “gob-stoppers” sold in wee sweetie shops in back streets for two a penny.
Booler Source: SND
A large marble for throwing.
Braxie Source: SND
A boy's marble with brown spots.
Breaker Source: SND (supp)
A heavy playing-marble, one used to scatter one's opponent's marbles.
Bricker Source: SND
A boy's marble made of brick clay.
Briler Source: SND
A particular kind of boy's marble.
Brink Source: SND (supp)
A large stone playing-marble.
Brinkler Source: SND
A fine rolling marble.
Bulger Source: SND
A large marble used in children's games.
Cauker/Cawker/Cawcum Source: SND
A red unglazed marble, used in boys' games; a marble that breaks easily.
Chancie Source: SND
A hard marble kept as a favoured driver in the game of ‘bools'.
Chaw Source: SND
A marble. QUOT: At a game of “bools” (i.e., “marbles”), the term “chaw” — sometimes “ta” — was used for the bool used by the players as distinct from all the other bools won or lost, which were in the ring as a pool.
Cheeny/Cheenie/Cheenae Source: SND
A boys' china marble.
China Source: SND
A boy's painted china marble.
Chipper Source: SND
A hard marble that will break another.
Chippy/Chippie Source: SND
A large marble for knocking the others out of the hole in the game of chippie-holie.
Chuck/Chack Source: SND
A marble used at the game of taw.
Clay bug Source: SND
A common clay marble.
Clay davie Source: SND
A kind of boy's marble.
Clay dunt Source: SND
A kind of boy's marble.
Clayer Source: SND
A boy's red clay marble.
Clayey Source: SND
A clay marble.
Commie/Commy/Cummie Source: SND
A small marble.
Cracksie Pig Source: SND (supp)
A kind of playing marble.
Crocker/Croaker/Crockie Source: SND
A species of boy's marble.
Cuddler Source: SND
QUOT: In the big ring game of marbles, we could claim the right to “cuddle,” i.e. press a marble into the ground close to the others in the centre. The rest of the players could roll a marble to touch it, when the man claiming the right had to pay him out of his own pocket. The marble so placed was the cuddler.
Cully Source: SND
The name in the game of marbles for the big selected marble used for shooting at the others in the ring with the hand held up.
Dabber/Dauber Source: SND
A large kind of marble.
Dazzie Source: SND (supp)
A glass or multi-coloured marble.
Deaffy/Deefy/Deafy/Daiffy/Diffy Source: SND
Used substantivally for the marble or ball itself.
Dod/Clay-dod Source: SND
A soft, reddish marble.
Doe Source: SND
A boy's large marble, a ‘plunker'.
Doggle Source: SND
A boy's marble; “a hard marble, well glazed and browned”.
Dolder Source: SND
Anything large of its kind, such as a boulder, marble, fish, etc.
Doldie/Duldie Source: SND
A large-sized marble.
Doller/Dollar Source: SND
A large marble.
Dollicker/Dol(l)iker Source: SND
A very large marble, about six to eight times the size of an ordinary marble.
Dollie Source: SND (supp)
A large playing-marble.
Dolver/Dolfer Source: SND
Used of anything large, e.g. a large marble.
Dossie Source: SND
A large coloured clay marble .
Eelie Source: SND
A kind of marble.
Fan-dan Source: SND
A kind of marble. Also a skittle, usually made from an empty cartridge, used in marble games.
Fifer Source: SND
Also applied to a kind of soft, dull brown marble.
Foustie Source: SND
A kind of boy's marble.
Frenchie Source: SND
A boy's marble, of a greenish yellow colour, but with strata of lighter colour through it.
Glaiger Source: SND
A hard, whitish kind of marble or taw, made of earthenware or jam-pot material.
Glaizie/Glaizy Source: SND
A large clay marble with a shiny, glazed surface.
Glaurie/Glaary Source: SND
A clay marble.
Gless mallie Sources: SND SND
A glass playing marble.
Glessack/Glessag Source: SND
A small glass marble.
Glesser/Glasser/Glaisser Source: SND
A glass playing marble.
Glessie/Glessy/Glessy bool/Glessie boolbool Source: SND
A glass playing marble.
Green lady Source: SND
A marble of green glass, usually the stopper of an old-fashioned lemonade bottle.
Gussie Source: SND
A ball or large marble.
Hard hack Source: SND
A kind of marble: found only in comb. hard hack, a clay marble.
Hard heid Source: SND
A clay marble.
Hollan bools Source: SND
Dutch marbles, of striped or variegated pattern, greatly prized by boys.
Honie Source: SND
A small stone marble.
Jammer Source: SND
A term employed in the game of marbles for an opponent's marble lying in the direct line to the hole and blocking access to it.
Jaur(r)ie/Jar(r)/Jarrie/Jawrie Sources: SND SND (supp)
An earthenware marble.
Jelogy/Jelollie Source: SND
A large marble made of fireclay.
Juck/Juckie Source: SND
A large white earthenware marble .
Jumper Source: SND
The large marble aimed at in the game of Ringie.
Knuckle/Nickle Source: SND
A sharp push, a jerk, specif. the flick given to the striking marble in the game,in extended sense, the marble so played.
Knur Source: SND
A large marble.
Lab/Labbie Source: SND
A game of marbles, where the cully is thrown from the hand at the ring; a large marble used in the game.
Leader Source: SND
Leader, a lead bullet, esp. one used as a marble.
Leep Source: SND
A kind of marble.
Leid/Leadie Source: SND
A boy's marble, hand-made from lead.
Limmie Source: SND
A glass marble, orig. used as a lemonade bottle stopper.
Mappie/Mappy Source: SND
A boy's marble marked with lines like a globe of the world.
Marie Source: SND
A child's marble actually made from marble.
Marley Source: SND
A marble made from red clay hardened in the fire.
Masher Source: SND
A variety of coloured glass marble.
Mavis Source: SND
A variegated marble, from its speckled appearance.
Mealie-fattie Source: SND
A clay marble used in a ring game.
Mexie Source: SND
A child's marble with variegated colouring.
Mikie Source: SND
A marble about ¾′′ in diameter, made of brown clay.
Mite Source: SND
A small clay marble.
Monkey-chipper Source: SND
A marble used in the game.
Moolie/Moolie/Meelie/Mealie/Meelick Source: SND
A child's marble of burnt clay, usually of a pale or flecked colour.
Moral-Legger Source: SND
A variety of marble, prob. a streaked or variegated one.
Nag/Aggie Source: SND
The marble in the game of nags.
Nicker Source: SND
A marble used for striking.
Nugget Source: SND (supp)
A striped glass marble.
Peaser/Peezer/Pizzer Source: SND
A small marble.
Peasie/Peasy/Pacey/Paisy/Pizzie/Peisie Source: SND
A small marble.
Peeble Source: SND
A small glass marble, gen. greenish in colour.
Peedgie/Peedgack/Peechack Source: SND
A small glass marble.
Peep Source: SND
A kind of small marble.
Peerie Source: SND
A small stone marble.
Peever Sources: SND SND (supp)
A very small marble.
Peginsee Source: SND
A striped glass marble.
Pick/Picker/Peek(ie) Source: SND
A marble, usually of earthenware, which was thrown or pitched at the other marbles instead of being rolled, a pitcher, plunker.
Pig(gy) bool Source: SND
A clay marble.
Pig/Piggie Source: SND
A child's marble made of earthenware.
Pigger Source: SND
An earthenware or clay marble.
Pilcher Source: SND
The marble held in the hand for shooting in the game of taw.
Piper Source: SND
A marble made of pipe-clay.
Pitcher/Pecher Source: SND
A boy's marble which is thrown rather than rolled in games with marbles such as kype, moshie, pick-the-ring.
Pitcher/Pecher Source: SND
A piece of lead used in the game of Kype.
Placer Source: SND
A kind of playing marble, one placed in the centre of the ring to be knocked out.
Plunker Source: SND
A heavy marble made of clay, glass or metal, designed to be played in this way.
Plunkie/Planky Source: SND
A marble propelled in this way.
Plurr Source: SND (supp)
A large heavy playing-marble.
Pottie/Potty Source: SND
A marble made of fine clay or earthenware, a pigger .
Potty-bool Source: SND
A marble made of fine clay or earthenware, a pigger.
Prapper Source: SND
A type of marble used for this purpose in the game of marbles played in a ring.
Priler Source: SND
A marble which, on striking another, spins round in the place of contact.
Pront Source: SND
A large marble.
Red(d)ie/Red(d)y/Riddie Source: SND
A red clay marble.
Roanie/Ronnie Source: SND
A small brown marble.
Roldie Source: SND
A kind of marble.
Rosie/Rosy/Roosie Source: SND
A child's reddish marble.
Rower/Rowar/Rowir/Rouer/Rowler Source: SND
A large marble.
Ruddy Source: SND
A child's marble made of red clay.
Sawtan/Sautie Source: SND
A small light shooting marble of a reddish colour, appar. so called because of the mischief it could cause to one's opponents' marbles.
Sclattie/Sclaitey Source: SND
A marble made of slate.
Scranner Source: SND
A playing marble which wins many of the opponents' stakes.
Smashie Source: SND
The heavy marble so used.
Stanie/Staney/Steenie Source: SND
A small coloured marble.
Steelie Source: SND
A boy's marble made of steel, gen. a ball-bearing put to this purpose.
Ston(e)der Source: SND
A large brown glazed earthenware marble.
Stonack/Stonach Source: SND
A large brown glazed earthenware marble.
Stondie/Stondy Source: SND
A large brown glazed earthenware marble.
Stone-roller Source: DOST
A large brown glazed earthenware marble.
Stoner Source: SND
A large brown glazed earthenware marble.
Tammie Source: SND
A large marble.
Tattie-maller Source: SND
The largest size of playing marble, lit. ‘potato-masher'.
Tog Source: SND
A large marble.
Toldie Source: SND
A large marble.
Towler Source: SND
A large marble.
Trollie Source: SND
A very large marble.
Tumbie Source: SND
A large marble used to knock smaller marbles out of the ring.
Twiser/Twiezer Source: SND
A button in the game of Buttons, which was valued at two shots, occas. of a marble sim. assessed.
Wallies Source: SND
Earthenware marbles.
Watchie-wee Source: SND
A name for a kind of very small marble.
Waterloo Source: SND
A soft, somewhat brittle and usu. uncoloured, or sometimes brown-veined, clay playing-marble.
Witch Source: SND
A red clay marble, gen. one that is considered effective in winning games, a “wizard”.
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