Definition of Shove-halfpenny

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Shove-halfpenny

shouting dictation
shouting dictations
shouting match
shouting matches
shouting out
shoutingly
shoutings
shoutout
shoutouts
shouts
shouts-out
shouts out
shouty
shove
shove-ha'penny
shove-halfpenny (current term)
shove-it
shove along
shove ha'penny
shove halfpenny
shove off
shove the queer
shoved
shovel-nosed
shovel-ready
shovel board
shovel hat
shovel in
shovel out

Literary usage of Shove-halfpenny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. According to My Lights by John Hollingshead (1900)
"'shove-halfpenny,' for some mysterious reason known only to the Legislature, was declared illegal. I have played the game at Oberammergau, in Bavaria, ..."

2. According to My Lights by John Hollingshead (1900)
"shove-halfpenny,' for some mysterious reason known only to the Legislature, was declared illegal. I have played the game at Oberammergau, ..."

3. According to My Lights by John Hollingshead (1900)
"shove-halfpenny,' for some mysterious reason known only to the Legislature, was declared illegal. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"The game of shove-halfpenny is mentioned in the Times of April 25th, 1845, as then played by the lower orders. ..."

5. Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1884)
"It is mentioned under various names, according to the coin employed, as shove- groat,1 etc. The game of shove-halfpenny is mentioned in the Times of April ..."

6. Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1884)
"The game of shove-halfpenny is mentioned in the Times of April 25, 1845, as then played by the lower orders. According to Strutt, it " was analogous to the ..."

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