Shove-halfpenny (Noun)
Meaning
A game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The traditional pub game of shove-halfpenny was a popular pastime on Friday nights.
- To score points in shove-halfpenny, the coins had to come to rest within the marked scoring areas.
- After leaving school, John joined a local team that competed in shove-halfpenny tournaments across the county.
- The object of shove-halfpenny is to get your coins or discs as close as possible to the end line.
- In team games of shove-halfpenny, the positions of the coins or discs were often fiercely disputed by opposing players.