The Collaborative International Dictionary
backgammon \back"gam`mon\, n. [Origin unknown; perhaps fr. Dan. bakke tray + E. game; or very likely the first part is from E. back, adv., and the game is so called because the men are often set back.] A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a ``board'' marked off into twenty-four spaces called ``points''. Each player has fifteen pieces, or ``men'', the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
backgammon board, a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two ``tables''.
WordNet
n. the board on which backgammon is played
Usage examples of "backgammon board".
I once watched Jimmy Goldsmith bargaining for a backgammon board with a street trader in Mexico.
A thousand feet below lay the old Ottoman capital of Bursa, like a backgammon board spread out across the valley’.
Certainly it seemed odd that she would never again see him at lunch in the commissary or over the backgammon board in Alvarado Street.
May-may indicated another cushion that was opposite her, and the backgammon board that was set up.
Sparsit, from her place at the backgammon board, was constantly straining her eyes to pierce the shadows without.
He dismissed the page and walked across the heavy carpet, noticing the rich background smell of cigar-smoke, the quiet voices that came from the three tables of bridge, and the sharp rattle of dice across an unseen backgammon board.
Very carefully, Miss Price closed the backgammon board and laid it on the little table beside the sofa.
Everything Olive had carted into the catacombs was stashed neatly in a long line of open chests and crates, which also held sacks and backpacks, tents, blankets, saddlebags, chains, knives and whetstones, camp dishes, a beat-up shield, a Talis deck, dice, a backgammon board, mirrors, snares, nets, magnifying glasses, a few bottles of wine, and even lockpicks.
On the other hand, Hancocks stately mansion, which General Clinton had occupied, was missing only a backgammon board.
He set it beside the backgammon board, ignoring the man's hesitation until he apparently gave up on the possibility of snooping and wandered off in the direction of the bridge.
When at last the evening gun boomed out and the bosun did pipe 'Stand by your hammocks', the first gust of the levanter came racing across the water with a low cloud of spray: it struck the Surprise from astern, a glancing blow that drove her foretop deep, so that she gave a sudden peck like a horse going over a hedge and finding the ground on the far side much lower than it had expected - a movement so violent that it flung Stephen and Jacob the length of the gunroom, together with their backgammon board, the dice and the men.