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noun

Shovelboard n.

A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; called also shuffleboard.

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Etymology of 'Shovelboard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shovelboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... were never minions or servile flatterers. Henry had his Court favourites with whom he hunted and shot and diced; with whom he played—always for money—tennis, primero and bowls, and the more mysterious games of Pope July, Imperial and Shovelboard;[685] and to whom he threw many an acre of choice monastic land. But they never influenced his policy. No man was ever advanced to political (p. 242) power in Henry's reign, merely because he pandered to the King's vanity or to his vices. No one was a better judge of conduct in the case of others, ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

... small garret, and ten pounds a year, and might not only perform his own professional functions, might not only be the most patient of butts and of listeners, might not only be always ready in fine weather for bowls, and in rainy weather for shovelboard, but might also save the expense of a gardener, or of a groom. Sometimes the reverend man nailed up the apricots; and sometimes he curried the coach horses. He cast up the farrier's bills. He walked ten miles with a message or a parcel. He was permitted to dine with the family; but he was expected ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

Words linked to "Shovelboard" : shuffleboard, outdoor game