shovel-boardshuffleboardn.
/ˈʃʌv(ə)lbɔːd/ /ˈʃʌf(ə)lbɔːd/ 1. † b. = shovel-board shilling n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.
a. A game in which a coin or other disk is driven by a blow with the hand along a highly polished board, floor, or table (sometimes ten yards or more long) marked with transverse lines. The game is out of use in England, but is still played (with some modifications of form) in the U.S. Cf. slide-groat n., shove-groat n., shove-board n.The modern game as played in the U.S. is always called shuffleboard; in historical references to the older game the usual form is shovel-board.
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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
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β. 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iii. sig. F2 How haue you sped heere at home at shouelboord?1672 T. Shadwell Miser iii. iii. 36 He ha's already lost his Edward shillings that he kept for Shovel-board.1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) i. iii. vii. 205 The Citizens and Peasants have..Cricket, Skittles, or Nine-Pins, Shovel~board, [etc.].1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 3 Before the introduction of Billiards the fashionable game on a board was shovel-board.γ. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 84/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Playing at slidegrote or shofleboorde.1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 178 The Marquis chose to sit up all night at shuffleboard with four Suffolk malsters.1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 235/2 Checkers and shuffle-board were in requisition.1532 Privy Purse Expenses Hen. VIII (1827) 188 Paied to my lord Wylliam for that he wanne of the kinges grace at shovillaborde ix li.
1575 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 364 All unlawfull games, as..tables, bowlls, shovelaborde.
1656 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 40 That you..keep showlibord playing..on sondaies contrary to order.
1688 in W. T. Baker Rec. Borough Nottingham (1900) V. 352 Wee present William Finn for keeping men plaing att shouell-abord in his seller.
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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
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 143 Seauen groates in mill-sixpences, and two Edward Shouelboords [1602 Two faire shouell boord shillings] . View more context for this quotation
c. The table upon which the game was played.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > shovelboard, etc. > [noun] > table
shovel-board1603
shovel-board table1634
1603 Inventory 29 Mar. in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 22 Itm, one long table for a sholven borde.
a1660 Prince d'Amour, etc. 163 A new shuel board whereon never stood food.
1666 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 96 Dice, cards, sketells, shuffle-boords, billiard tables.
1722 J. Macky Journey through Eng. II. iii. 44 [In] the Hall..is a Marble Shuffleboard.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. iii. 200 He was loud and laughing with a knot of young men by the shovel-board.
2. 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 they may rest on one of nine squares of a diagram chalked on the deck or marked on the court. The usual form is now shuffleboard.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > shipboard games > [noun]
dilly-dally1698
King Arthur1785
shovel-board1836
sling the monkey1838
horse-billiards1869
deck quoits1907
deck tennis1927
1836 T. Power Impressions of Amer. I. 14 Shuffle~board, chess, and backgammon, with exercise and pleasant converse, will while away the intervening hours.
1851 J. D. Lewis Across Atlantic 6 That ignominious game called shovel-board, which consists in stooping down and projecting flat slabs of wood at figures chalked on the deck.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxviii. 224 There were rope quoits got out too; and the more energetic shovel-board.
1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log vi. 115 The long afternoon game of shuffle-board was interrupted by a break, in that clear sea-line to windward.
1932 E. Waugh Cruise in Work Suspended (1949) Papa is very good at the deck games especially one called shuffle board.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. vi. 7/7 (advt.) 500-ft. sandy beach, 3 pools, putting green, tennis, shuffleboard, supervised Kiddie Playground.
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy iv. 90 Sometimes she stayed for old-tyme dancing or a game of shuffleboard.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.† shovel-board piece n. Obsolete† shovel-board play n. Obsolete† shovel-board room n. Obsolete† shovel-board table n. Obsolete
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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
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 145 He might..strike me, like a shovell-boord peece (being now a ledger) into the box.
1679 London Gaz. No. 1435/4 Six or eight Shovel board peices of Silver.
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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
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 19 The game called Shovel-board play.
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1631 Minute-bk. Archd. Essex 16 June Others of the companye..ran into the shovell board roome.
1653 J. Rowe Tragi-comœdia sig. *3v A Shufle-board-roome.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > shovelboard, etc. > [noun] > table
shovel-board1603
shovel-board table1634
1634 in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lxvii Mending the covers of the shovleaborde Table.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 383 The Shuffle-board table tho' ten yards, 1 foot, and an inch long, is made up of about 260 pieces.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 273 A new Shuffle-board-table.
1738 Earl of Oxford in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Portland (1901) VI. 176 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 676) XXXVI. i. 1 A fine table of white marble of a great length, made use of for a shovel board table.
C2. † shovel-board shilling n. Obsolete a shilling (sometimes of Edw. VI; see 1b) used in the game of shovel-board.
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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
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K2 Away slid I my man, like a shouell-board shilling.
a1616Shovel board shilling [see sense 1b]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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