1 gen 1619 anni - shovel-board

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A game in which a coin is driven by a blow with the palm of the hand along a board marked with transverse lines. 1607 <i>unlawfull games viz Shovell a board</i>, Middleham (NRQS1/90); 1619 <i>Paid to his lo</i>[rdship] <i>losses at shovelboard xs</i>, Skipton (Whit2/321). It had numerous alternative forms and spellings: 1575 <i>plaienge at Showlay bourde ... in service tyme</i>, Thirsk (PTD77); 1608 <i>playing ...at shoule-bord in the Evening prayer-time,</i> Bagby (NRQS1/100).

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