10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOVELBOARD»
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shovelboard in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, ...
Shovelboard, according to Douce, seems only to have been a variation of
shovegroat on a larger scale. It was formerly in great repute among the nobility
and gentry. Strutt remarks, that few of their mansions were without a shovelboard,
which ...
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The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes
But such popular games as cards, tables, backgammon, shovelboard, billiards,
and even chess, provided a still more convenient vehicle for speculation, to the
fascinations of which the so-called inferior- sex were not the sole victims.
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club
I gladly gather at this point of Heywood's narrative that Newcome's natural
melancholy and his timid habit of magnifying the evils and the wickedness of life
were relieved by the games of shovelboard and billiards. The game of
shovelboard will ...
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The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
But such popular games as cards, tables, backgammon, shovelboard, billiards,
and even chess, provided a still more convenient vehicle for speculation, to the
fascinations of which the so-called inferior sex were not the sole victims.
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club
I gladly gather at this point of Heywood's narrative that New- come's natural
melancholy and his timid habit of magnifying the evils and the wickedness of life
were relieved by the games of shovelboard and billiards. The game of
shovelboard ...
Manchester Literary Club, 1880
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Webster's Secondary-school Dictionary: Abridged from ...
Auy early form of ebutSeboard 2 A com, aa a abilliug, penny, or groat, used id
playing shovelboard □hov'el er, shov'el ler i tn, n 1. One that shovels 2. A broad-
billed river duck, [worn by aome Euglish clergy.] Shovel hat- Abroad-brimmed hat
, ...
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Ordinary recreations we have in winter, as cards, tables, dice, shovelboard,
chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecocks, billiards, music,
masks, singing, dancing, ule-games, &c.' To this catalogue, he adds, ' Dancing,
sing_ ...
Strutt remarks, that few of their mansions were without a shovelboard, which was
a fashionable iece of furniture. Dr. Plott in his Natural History of tali'ordshire
mentions a remarkable one in the hall at Chartley, and another at Madeley Manor
.
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
Ordinary recreations we have in winter, as cards, tables, dice, shovelboard,
chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecocks, billiards, music,
masks, singing, dancing, ule-games, &c.' To this catalogue, he adds, ' Dancing, ...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the ...
The game of shovelboard, though now considered as exceedingly vulgar, and
practised by the lower classes of the people, was formerly in great repute among
the nobility and gentry ; and few of their mansions were without a shovelboard, ...
Joseph Strutt, John Charles Cox, 1801
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOVELBOARD»
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shovelboard is used in the context of the following news items.
How to play Shuffleboard - the sport gaining in popularity in Norfolk
... types of games are thought to date back around 500 years, and Henry VIII was known to have played and gambled over a version called “shovelboard”. «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Apr 15»
Clube de Nova York tenta resgatar esporte que era tendência entre …
Sua origem vem de um jogo inglês do século XV, o shovelboard, um dos passatempos favoritos de Henrique VIII — além de degolar ex-esposas. Sua forma ... «Zero Hora, Feb 14»
New to the Brooklyn Scene, the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club
The history of shuffleboard is as fuzzy as the velour track suits that some players favor. It has its roots in a 15th-century English game called shovelboard, which, ... «New York Times, Jan 14»
