shovelboard

How To Use shovelboard In A Sentence

• ABIGAIL: I have once or twice played the shovelboard. The Crucible
• She disregarded the laws governing tavern hours, and stayed open late into the night, allowing her customers, some only in their teens, to drink and play the forbidden game of shovelboard, carousing loudly enough to disturb the neighbors' sleep. History of American Women
• Ay -- an Edward shovelboard [Note 5], and a new shilling o 'King James, and three groats o' Queen Bess -- that's not fairy silver, I 'count. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
• The shuffleboard, first called shoveboard and then, inexplicably, shovelboard, appears to have originated in England, where there is a record of it being played in 1532.
• The game of shovelboard was played by two players (each provided with five coins) on a smooth heavy table.
• And then she told that she was born in a farmhouse like that on the hill, and would like to know if they roasted groats and played at shovelboard there still; and ended by showing them her little silver tankard, which her godfather the jolly miller had given her, and out of which her elder sister, who had never taken kindly to tea, had drunk her ale and her aniseed water. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• Sits next to her: No, no, but I hear only that you go to the tavern every night, and play shovelboard with the Deputy Governor, and they give you cider. The Crucible
• And a new smooth shovelboard, whereon no victuals ne'er stood; English Songs and Ballads
• Then we had chess for those who played it, whist, cribbage, books, backgammon, and shovelboard. American Notes
• Henry Cabot Lodge says the shovelboard of Shakespeare's time was almost the only game not expressly prohibited. Customs and Fashions in Old New England