shove-ha'penny

American  

[shuhv-hey-puh-nee, -heyp-nee] / ˌʃʌvˈheɪ pə ni, -ˈheɪp ni /

Also shove-halfpenny

noun

British.

1. a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.

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Etymology

Origin of shove-ha'penny

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

The shove-ha'penny table was a planed mahogany board with a number of parallel lines scored across it.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

Easton had chummed up with a lot of the regular customers at the 'Cricketers', where he now spent most of his spare time, drinking beer, telling yarns or playing shove-ha'penny or hooks and rings.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

Nearly all the men in the bar were crowding round the shove-ha'penny board, some with knitted brows and drunken gravity trying to solve the puzzle and others waiting curiously for the result.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

Easton agreed to do so, but instead of keeping his word he began to play a four-handed game of shove-ha'penny with the other three, the sides and stakes being arranged as before.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

The only other occupant of the public bar--previous to the entrance of Crass and his mates--was a semi-drunken man, who appeared to be a house-painter, sitting on the form near the shove-ha'penny board.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert