Dilly-dallying, trifling hesitancy. Also the name of a game. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun] (7) dilly-dally1698 Dilly-dallying, trifling hesitancy. Also the name of a game. Obsolete. King Arthur1785 In the names of various games (esp. children's games), as King Arthur, King Caesar, King I am, King of Cantland, etc. Also: the leading or central… shovel-board1836 transferred. A game played (originally on shipboard, now also on a court) by pushing wooden or iron disks with a cue (called a shovel) so that… sling the monkey1838 a kind of game played by sailors. horse-billiards1869 a game played on board ship with wooden discs, on a diagram chalked on the deck. deck quoits1907 a game played, chiefly on board ships, by throwing a rope quoit over a peg. deck tennis1927 a game played esp. on the deck of a ship by tossing a ring or quoit of rubber, rope, etc., back and forth over a net. |
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