shove-groatn.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
= shovel-board n. (Cf. slide-groat n., slip- comb. form groat.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > shovelboard, etc. > [noun]
shove-groat1488
slip-groat1521
shove-board1522
shovel-board1532
slide-thrift1541
slide-groat1552
slip-thrift1579
shovel-board play1691
shovel-groat1825
shove-halfpenny1841
push-halfpenny1844
push-penny1856
shovel-penny1887
1488 in W. Kelly Notices illustr. Drama (1865) 181 [All persons were forbidden to play at]..checker-in-the-mire, or shove grote.
1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Slyde~thrifte otherwise called shovegrote.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 363 The hours..spent..at bowles tenis Cockpit Shufgrote cards and dice.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. i. §19. 225.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 78 Playing at shove-groat with Spanish doubloons.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as shove-groat table.
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1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 210 A Shove-groat table.
C2.
shove-groat shilling n. a shilling used in the game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > shovelboard, etc. > [noun] > coin used in
shove-groat shilling1600
shovel-board shilling1611
shovel-boarda1616
shovel-board piece1622
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 189 Quaite him downe Bardolfe like a shoue-groat shilling . View more context for this quotation
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. ii. sig. F4v Such as haue..made it runne as smooth of the toung, as a shoue-groat shilling . View more context for this quotation
Derivatives
ˈshovegroating n. playing at shove-groat.
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shovegroating1601
1601 G. Hakewill Vanitie of Eie (1615) xxix. 140 Bouling, shooting, coiting, shoufgrating, and the like.
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