See also:

• SQUAILS (from skail or kail, a ninepin)

SQUAILS (from skail or kail, a ninepin)  , an old See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• GAME

game in which disks are snapped or struck with the See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm from the edge of a table or See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board at a See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark at its centre . Its See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early prototype was shove-See also:

• GROAT (adapted from the Dutch groot, great, thick; cf. Ger. Groschen; the Med. Lat. grossus gives Ital. grosso, Fr. gros, as names for the coin)

groat, called also slyp-groat or slide-See also:

• THRIFT

thrift, which in the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century went under the name of jervis or See also:

• JARVIS, JOHN WESLEY (178o-1840)

jarvis . This last variation was played on a table marked with See also:

• CHALK

chalk into alleys divided into squares numbered from i to 9 or 10, the See also:

• OBJECT

object being to send a See also:

• HALFPENNY, WILLIAM

halfpenny into a high-numbered space . If it went beyond nothing was scored . The highest aggregate of a certain number of plays won . The most scientific development of this class of See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games is the See also:

• MODERN

modern Shuffle-board (q.v.) .