Lexicographical Neighbors of Hovelled
Literary usage of Hovelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"Now and then it happens that both cocks refuse fighting while the law is telling;
in this case a fresh cock is to be hovelled, ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1793)
"... when that which is laft muft be taken up, but not carried off the pit.
The hovelled cock is then to be fet down to the other, ..."
3. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1838)
"Now and then it happens that both cocks refuse fighting while the law is telling;
in this case a fresh cock is to be hovelled, and brought forward upon the ..."
4. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"Then the other which is to be fet to lait, muft be taken up, but not carried off
the pit ; then fetting the hovelled cock down to the other five ..."
5. Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises: with by Edmond Hoyle (1847)
"But it sometimes happens that both cocks refuse fighting while the law is telling :
when this happens, a fresh cock is to be hovelled, and brought upon the ..."
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