loggets
noun
a game, formerly played in England, in which players throw pieces of wood at a stake.
loggats
-
a variation of
loggets.
Example Sentences
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Therefore, let not him who wishes to read his Shakespeare unalloyed by notes and textual comment, despise the painful critic or accuse him of playing at loggats with the words of Shakespeare.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
If thou wilt neither hunt nor shoot, try games; Play at loggats, bowls, fives, dominoes, draughts, cribbage, Backgammon—special recipes for love!
From The Love-chase by Henry Morley
Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with them?
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux
A stake was fixed into the ground, and those who played threw loggats at it.
From Hamlet by Charles John Kean
Hence loggats, as the name of an old game among the common people, and one of those forbidden by a statute of the 33rd of Henry VIII.
From Hamlet by Charles John Kean
