† spurn-pointn.
Obsolete.
An old game, perhaps of the nature of hop-scotch.
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Scotch hoppersa1672
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hopscotch1801
hop-crease1803
Scotch hob1823
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1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 576/2 Albeit the old kindenesse of the father cannot lette the good chyld vttrely dyspayre, for all that he hath played at spurne poynte by the waye in goynge at scholewarde.
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iii. iv. 49 If he were here, he would intreat Apollo to play at Quoits with me, or checkestone, or spurne~point.
a1643 Visct. Falkland Of Infallibilitie Church of Rome (1645) 10 The Reader might almost thinke they had beene fallen out at Spurn-point or Ketle-pins.
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