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Definition of Spin the platter
1. Noun. A game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spin The Platter
Literary usage of Spin the platter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church at Play: A Manual for Directors of Social and Recreational Life by Norman Egbert Richardson (1922)
"Spin the Platter. 32. Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe. 33. Baste the Beetle (Bear).
34. Two Deep. 35. Trades (New Orleans). 36. Blind Man's Buff with Wand. ..."
2. A Method for Teaching Primary Reading by Lida Brown McMurry (1914)
"CHAPTER IV "spin the platter" GAME Material: a pie tin. ... If he succeeds, he
may spin the platter. If not, he takes his seat and the child who at first ..."
3. What Shall We Do Now?: Over Five Hundred Games and Pastimes; a Book of by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1922)
"New Year Spin the Platter Game This is played according to the directions for
Spin the Platter given on page 17, except that the players, instead of taking ..."
4. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"... in America as Spin the Platter. Each of the players is named for some article
of My Lady's toilet, such as her gown, necklace, evening coat, slippers, ..."
5. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"This a French form of a game known in America as Spin the Platter. Each of the
players is named for some article of My Lady's toilet, such as her gown, ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"... and evenings enlivened by romping games, such as blindman's-buff and
spin-the-platter. The sports and pastimes of these evening parties not unfrequently ..."
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