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shove-ha'penny
[ shuhv-hey-puh-nee, -heyp-nee ]
noun
- a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shove-ha'penny1
Example Sentences
The shove-ha'penny table was a planed mahogany board with a number of parallel lines scored across it.
Meantime the game of shove-ha'penny proceeded merrily, the Semi-drunk taking a great interest in it and tendering advice to both players impartially.
Meantime the game of shove-ha'penny proceeded merrily, the majority of the male guests crowding round the board, applauding or censuring the players as occasion demanded.
The only other occupant of the public bar--previous to the entrance of Crass and his mates--was a semi-drunken man, who appeared to be a house-painter, sitting on the form near the shove-ha'penny board.
Easton had chummed up with a lot of the regular customers at the 'Cricketers', where he now spent most of his spare time, drinking beer, telling yarns or playing shove-ha'penny or hooks and rings.
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