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Shovelboard

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative form of shuffleboard.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

n. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A game in which the players shove or drive by blows of the hand pieces of money or counters toward certain marks, compartments, or lines marked on a table.

n. The table or board on which the game of shovel-board is played; also, the groat, shilling, or other coin used in the game.

n. A game played on shipboard by pushing wooden or iron disks with a crutch-shaped mace or cue so that they may rest on one of the squares of a diagram of nine numbered squares chalked on the deck.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark

n. a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface

Word Usage

"One night in 1686, Christine Trask, a neighbor, stormed into the tavern and threw the shovelboard pieces into the fire."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

board game outdoor game

Cross Reference

edward shovel-board

Variant

shuffleboard shoveboard shovegroat shovelpenny