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Squails
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from skail or kail, a ninepin), an old English game in which disks are snapped or struck with the palm from the edge of a table or board at a mark at its centre. Its early prototype was shove-groat, called also slyp-groat or slide-thrift, which in the 18th century went under the name of jervis or jarvis. This last variation was played on a table marked with chalk into alleys divided into squares numbered from 1 to 9 or 10, the object being to send a 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 games is the modern Shuffle-board.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Squails'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/squails.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Squails'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/squails.html. 1910.
