loggets

American  

[law-gits, log-its] / ˈlɔ gɪts, ˈlɒg ɪts /

Or loggats

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. a game, formerly played in England, in which players throw pieces of wood at a stake.

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Etymology

Origin of loggets

1575–85; plural of logget, equivalent to log ¹ + -et

Example Sentences

Among the games which were named as forbidden in the ordinaries were “carding,” dicing, tally, bowls, billiards, slidegroat, shuffle-board, quoits, loggets, ninepins.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? mine ache to think on't.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William