Brewer's: Backgammon

is the Anglo-Saxon bac gamen (back game), so called because the pieces (in certain circumstances) are taken up and obliged to go back to enter at the table again.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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