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词汇 conker
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conker. This name for the horse chestnut is used mainly in England, but the English game called “conkers” is sometimes played by children in the United States. In the game, a horse chestnut is hollowed out with a penknife and is knotted to one end of a length of string. The children then swing their strings, trying to break each other’s conkers. The game may have first been called “conqueror,” which was corrupted to conker, which in turn gave its name to the horse chestnut used in the game. It could, however, derive from the French conque, a “shell,” for the game was originally played with small shells instead of horse chestnuts. See hong kong.
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