gobang [goh-bahng] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
Also go·ban [goh-bahn] /goʊˈbɑn/. Origin of gobang 1885–90; Japanese, equivalent to go go2 + ban board (Also called go-moku. Examples from the Web for goban Historical Examples of goban
He has realized your ideas of a nineteenth century Goban Saor.
P.A. Sheehan
So when the Goban went there he coaxed one of the women the same as if he was not married.
Lady I. A. Gregory
For that is what the Goban meant, but it took the daughter-in-law to understand it.
Lady I. A. Gregory
And the Goban said ‘How can that be when I put a stone in and a stone out and a stone across.’
Lady I. A. Gregory
The anachronism committed in the instance of the Goban Saer was precisely of the same character!
Henry O’Brien
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