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Definition of Shovelboard
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 Shovelboard
1. 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.
Definition of Shovelboard
1. Noun. (alternative form of shuffleboard) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Shovelboard
1. 1. 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. 2. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shovelboard
Literary usage of Shovelboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"The shovelboard itself was an oak table sometimes nearly forty feet in length,
which found a place in the hall of every country house, and sometimes was ..."
2. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club (1880)
"The game of shovelboard will be a mystery to some of us, ... It is due to our
player at shovelboard to mention that he expressed in his diary a doubt ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... for Edward's shovelboard shillings , a coin of Edward the Sixth. They were
broad shillings, particularly used in playing the game of ..."
4. Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern by Horace Smith (1831)
"Ordinary recreations we have in winter, as cards, tables, dice, shovelboard,
chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock, billiards, ..."
5. Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern by Horace Smith (1831)
"Ordinary recreations we have in winter, as cards, tables, dice, shovelboard,
chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock, ..."
6. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and by Joseph Strutt (1876)
"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 ..."
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