noun
a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark
• Syn: ↑shovel board, ↑shove-halfpenny
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑board game
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nounsee shove-halfpenny
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/shuv'hay"peuh nee, -hayp"nee/, n. Brit.
a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
Also, shove-halfpenny /shuv"hay"peuh nee, -hayp"nee/.
[1835-45]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.