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shove-groat
shove-groat Obs. exc. Hist. [f. stem of shove v.1 + groat n.] = shovel-board. (Cf. slidegroat, slip-groat.)1488 in W. Kelly Notices illustr. Drama (1865) 181 [All persons were forbidden to play at]..checker-in-the-mire, or shove grote. 1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 9 §1 Slyde⁓thrifte otherwise called ...
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Shove ha'penny
Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny), also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift See also
Paper football
Penny football
Pub games
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"The Rules of Shove Ha'penny" – Jaques of London
A Shove
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shovel
▪ I. shovel, n. (ˈʃʌv(ə)l) Forms: α. 1 scofl, -scobl, 3 ssofle, 3–5 schovele, 4–5 schovel, 5 schofylle, schovyl(le, schowulle, -elle, shofful, showele, shovele, shoville, 5–6 schovell, shovill, 5–7 shovell, 6 schovyll, shoffell, choffell, shoovell, shovull, shovelle, showel, 6–7 showell, 7–8 shufle,...
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slide-groat
† slide-groat Obs. [f. slide v. + groat.] Shove-groat, shovelboard.1552 Nottingham Rec. IV. 102 Dyce, slyde grote,..or any other maner of game. 1586 Hooker Giraldus' Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 86/2 On a night, when the lieutenant and he for their disport were plaieng at slidegrote, or shoofle⁓boor...
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Discworld
Pratchett was quoted as saying that he "just never got into the habit of chapters", later adding that "I have to shove them in the putative YA books because Lipwig; Stanley Howler, an obsessive young man who was raised by peas and becomes the Discworld's first stamp collector; and the very old Junior Postman Groat
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shuffleboard
shovel-board, ˈshuffleboard (ˈʃʌv(ə)lbɔəd) Forms: α. 6 shovillabourde, shovelaborde, 7 shovell a board, shouleaborde, shovelabord, showlibord, shovellabord. β. 6–7 shovelboord, 7 shovell-boord, sholven borde, shovell board, shuel board, 7– shovel-board. γ. 6 shoffle-, shoofle-, 7 shufle-, 8 shuffell...
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