"duck on a rock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884, William Wells Newell, Games and Songs of American Children, page 189",
          "text": "No. 146. Duck on a Rock.",
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          "ref": "1911, Boy Scouts Handbook, 1st edition, page 304",
          "text": "Duck-on-a-Rock: This is a good old grandfather game.",
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          "ref": "1919, Arthur Scott Bailey, chapter 13, in The Tale of Major Monkey",
          "text": "And then he looked on while they played games—hide-and-seek, and duck-on-the-rock, and follow-my-leader, and ever so many others.",
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          "text": "[B]asketball […] is […] cobbled together out of irreconcilable parts: James Naismith invented it, out of desperation, with a peach basket and a football and the rules of an old children’s game called Duck on a Rock.",
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        "A traditional children's game in which multiple players stand behind a throwing line and each takes a turn throwing a stone (sometimes called a \"duck\") at a target rock (sometimes called the \"drake\") that is guarded by another player, such that when a player's thrown stone dislodges the target rock all the players run to retrieve their thrown stones, while the guard replaces the target and then attempts to tag a player before he or she can return to the throwing line. If the guard successfully tags a player, then the guard and player swap roles."
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