“The Colony Fire specifically is burning in a really bad spot … where these trees are like jackstraws and it’s difficult to put fire personnel into some of these areas because of that,” he said.

It was a little bit like playing jackstraws, where you toss all the straws down in a pile and then try to take one away without disturbing the others.

The chairs and easels were piled up like jackstraws at the beginning of a game.

The jam lay in an angle of the gorge like a heap of titanic jackstraws.

The nutting game itself is played similarly to that well known children's game, "jackstraws."