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Quaker Meeting, or "Quaker's Meeting", is a child's game which is initiated with a rhyme and becomes a sort of quiet game where the participants may not speak, laugh, or smile. The rhyme has many variations, but is similar to the following:
Quaker meeting has begun. No more laughing, no more fun. If you show your teeth or tongue, you must pay a forfeit.Another version is as follows:
Quaker Meeting has begun, no more talking, no more fun. no more chewing chewing gum. starting now...Quaker Meeting may refer to:
- Monthly meeting (or Area meeting in the UK), the basic organisational unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Preparative meeting (or Preparatory meeting; Local meeting in the UK), a common basic local worship group in the Religious Society of Friends
- Meeting for worship, a Quaker religious practice somewhat akin to a church service
- Quaker Meeting (child's game), a children's game
Quaker Meeting is a historic district roughly bounded by Quakertown, Cherryville Roads, Quaker Lane, and Locust Grove Road in the Quakertown section of Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, where the Quaker community was established in 1744.
It district was added to the National Register in 1990.
Usage examples of "quaker meeting".
He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.
One night when it rained the soldiers were allowed to shelter themselves in a Quaker meeting house, which for some hours bristled with bayonets and swords, an incident of which the Presbyterian pamphleteers afterwards made much use for satire.
It is still an extremely pretty village, with its broad shaded streets like a New England town and its old Quaker meeting house.
Indeed, the proportion of West Jersey immigrants who had actually been in prison for holding or attending Quaker meetings or refusing to pay tithes for the support of the established church was large.