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A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
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- A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
- A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand theother holds some small object, winning the object if right andforfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.