Dorbel -- the masses have spoken
FPoodry at aol.com
FPoodry at aol.com
Thu Apr 19 15:51:35 EDT 2001
>dorbel (n) In rolley-hole marbles tournaments, a two-point bonus score
>awarded when a player passes more than three holes on one turn
When I sent this definition in, Melissa asked me to explain rolley-hole
marbles to her sometime. I don't know much about it. I ran into it about 15
years ago on a family vacation in a state park in Tennessee, where they hold
the annual national rolley hole marbles tournament. (They had a few
competitors from Kentucky, and maybe another state too, so they called it
"national.") The field is a flat, rectangular patch of dirt, maybe 6 feet
wide and 10 feet long (I could be completely mis-estimating this) with
several (3?) marble-sized holes dug in it, maybe 2 feet apart, in a straight
line. The object of the game is to roll your marble into the holes somehow.
As I said, it's been about 15 years, and I've never run across it since.
I seem to recall something about the marbles being traditionally made by
placing round pebbles in little potholes under waterfalls and coming back in
a few years when they were eroded into spheres, but maybe that was something
else.
A few years ago somebody's choice of word had to do with some card game I'd
never heard of, but it was for real. So I thought I'd make up a definition
based on a real game.
-Fran
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