loggatloggetn.

1541 [implied in: Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Sondrie newe and crafty Games and Playes, as logatinge in the Feildes, slydethrifte otherwise called shovegrote. (at loggating n.)].

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iii. ii. 353 Bowles, Closh, Coites, Loggets or other unlawfull Games.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 90 Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggits with them: mine ake to thinke on't.

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good iii. iii. 17 200 crownes? I ha lost as much at loggets.

1705 T. Brown To J. Haines in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 31 What tho' they ne'r broke Jest or Pate at Locket's? They've Sense enuff, for all that, in their Pockets.

1773 G. Steevens Note on Hamlet v. i, in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakespeare (rev. ed.) X. 315 This is a game played in several parts of England even at this time. A stake is fixed into the ground; those who play, throw loggats at it, and he that is nearest the stake, wins: I have seen it played in different counties at their sheep-shearing feasts.

1858 Sat. Rev. 17 Apr. 401/1 Let us take the case of a fine old English gentleman in a country house on a wet day in the middle of the sixteenth century. After he had..played at bowls or loggats till his arms ached, how was he to pass the time till supper?

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. x. 746 The enemies from out of the Carthaginian ships, began to cast out certaine loggets [L. asseres] with yron hookes at the end (which the souldiors use to call Harpagones) for to take hold upon the Roman ships.

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. ii. ix. 79 Beating of fruit downe with long poales, loggets, or such like.

a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iv. vi. 69 in Wks. (1640) III Now are they tossing of his legs, and armes, Like Loggets at a Peare-tree. View more context for this quotation