Meaning & use
Shovelboard
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An old form of the tabletop or deck game now known as shuffleboard, in which discs are slid across a marked surface.
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Sailors passed long ocean crossings playing shovelboard on the ship's deck.
Tudor taverns often had a shovelboard table for patrons to wager on.
A note on using this word
An earlier English name for shuffleboard, popular from the 15th century onward and even mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry IV.
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shuffleboard
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