loggets

or log·gats

[ law-gits, log-its ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. a game, formerly played in England, in which players throw pieces of wood at a stake.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loggets¹

1575–85; plural of logget, equivalent to log ¹ + -et

Example Sentences

Among the games which were named as forbidden in the ordinaries were “carding,” dicing, tally, bowls, billiards, slidegroat, shuffle-board, quoits, loggets, ninepins.

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Did these bones cost no more the     breeding but to play at loggets with 'em?

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Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at Loggets with 'em? mine ake to thinke on't Clowne sings.

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Did these bones cost no more the     breeding but to play at loggets with 'em?

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Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? mine ache to think on't.

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