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Definition of Shuffleboards
1. shuffleboard [n] - See also: shuffleboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuffleboards
Literary usage of Shuffleboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents (1897)
"... shuffleboards, balls for hand ball, and last, but not least, the sand pile.
What wonder that the children were all eager to come and loth to go. ..."
2. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... suffering journeymen, labourers, servants, or apprentices, to game with cards,
dice, shuffleboards, mississippi, or billiard tables, skittles, ninepins, ..."
3. American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation by William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord (1911)
"... bagatelle tables, Jenny Lind tables, or other tables of the kind mentioned in
the first section of this Act, shuffleboards Places of and bowling alleys, ..."
4. American State Papers Bearing on Sunday Legislation by William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord (1911)
"... bagatelle tables, Jenny Lind tables, or other tables of the kind mentioned in
the first section of this Act, shuffleboards and bowling alleys, ..."
5. Josiah Tucker, Economist: A Study in the History of Economics by Walter Ernest Clark (1903)
"... cudgel-playing, etc., moreover on fives-places, and ball- courts, billiard
tables, shuffleboards, skittle alleys, bowling greens, and cock-pits. ..."
6. The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett, David Hume (1822)
"... that all publicans suffering journeymen, labourers, servants, or apprentices,
to game with cards, dice, shuffleboards, mississippi, or billiard tables, ..."
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