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Definition of Shuffleboard
1. Noun. A game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface.
Definition of Shuffleboard
1. n. See Shovelboard.
Definition of Shuffleboard
1. Noun. A game that involves sliding a puck along the ground towards a target. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shuffleboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuffleboard
Literary usage of Shuffleboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook by Lake Placid club, Lake Placid Club (N.Y.) (1901)
"Shuffleboard. There are 3 new shuffleboards for 1901. Photografy. 3 dark rooms
at Clubhouse, Westside and Adirondack Lodge with conveniences for developing ..."
2. Adventure Guide to Southeast Florida by Sharon Lloyd Spence, Sharon Spencer, Warren Lieb (1998)
"There's a pool, rec hall, billiards, laundry and exercise facilities, 50 amp
electric hookups, shuffleboard, and horseshoes. Six miles to beaches. ..."
3. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1920)
"If extension is desired, crokinole, snapping the discs on the shuffleboard,
etc., are useful. B. Adhesions. If the fingers are stiff due to adhesions, ..."
4. Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Hugh Thomson (1891)
"A shuffleboard is an immensely long table, standing upon legs of shining oak with
many drawers and cupboards underneath. There are hardly any left anywhere ..."
5. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1840)
"When Newton, playing at shuffleboard with the prince, blamed him for changing so
often, and, taking up a piece, threw it on the board and missed his aim, ..."
6. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.,from His Ms. Cypher by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Mynors Bright (1884)
"... and after dinner playing at shuffleboard,1 and when at last they heard I was
there, they went about their survey. But God help the King ! what surveys ..."
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