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Game played on a floor or table, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters
Answer for the clue "Game played on a floor or table, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters ", 12 letters:
shuffleboard
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Word definitions for shuffleboard in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, shovillaborde "shovel board," an unexplained alteration of shove-board (1520s), from shove (v.) + board (n.1). Originally a tabletop game (c.1600), the large-scale version (1877) was invented for play on ocean liners.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A game that involves sliding a puck or coin along the ground towards a target.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shuffleboard , more precisely deck shuffleboard , and also known as floor shuffleboard , is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow and elongated court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shovelboard \Shov"el*board`\, n. A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard , shoveboard , shovegroat , shovelpenny . A game played on board ship ...
Usage examples of shuffleboard.
The darkness was blinding, the only real light being the small display of middle-priced whiskey bottles behind the bar, the light above the shuffleboard table and the jukebox.
He had buddies around, lots of noise, the ball game on television, the shuffleboard game going on behind him.
There were bets going around on the shuffleboard game-tonight a long-standing rivalry would be settled once and for all.
A loud cheer went up from the shuffleboard championship-for-all-time, and the three of them spun around in their seats to see the winner shaking hands with the loser.
Her ears verified that the shuffleboard game was in full swing, and two video games against a far wall were bleeping and burpling through the quarters.
She worked her way back to the shuffleboard game, then went slowly behind the crowd toward the back of the room.
There were three or four men on his left and people at the booths behind them and others in the far room at the tables and booths and at the shuffleboard table against the wall.
The two women pulled the curly-haired man to his feet and walked him over to the shuffleboard table and Guthrie watched them play for a while.
They were free to concentrate on such important decisions as whether to take a brisk walk around the deck, play shuffleboard, or He immobile and watch the smooth sea blend with an almost cloudless sky.
Stafford did as he was ordered, sliding the bag like a shuffleboard disk into the small knot of children plastered against the front door.
Today, by Act of Providence I won a shuffleboard game from the steward.
Her nightmare was that she would still be here, but nothing would be familiar that she would naturally try to pursue her set routine, living in some house she would call home but which would have a different shape from what she knew, that with the condemnation money from the store she would naturally try to age in pursuit of the usual septuagenarian recreations bingo, shuffleboard, Florida when what she really wanted was for everything to be as it was.
What the hell was he going to do-move the wife to a mobile home in Lakeland, Florida, and play shuffleboard for the rest of his days?
That would be something to remember when he was playing shuffleboard in Florida.
I noticed a pinball machine, a bowling machine, a jukebox and a shuffleboard with three steel discs sitting in rosin.