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Quotation dates: 1598, 1682-1695
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Schule-the-burd, Shoola-board, Shool-boord, Shuffle-boord, n. Also: shufle-board. [e.m.E. shoffe boorde (1522), shovillaborde (a1532), shovelaborde (1575), shoffle-boorde (1577). Cf. Schule v.] The game of shovel-board. —(a) 1598 Treasurer's Accounts MS 110.
To his maiesteis self twa fyve pund peces to play at schule the burd 1682 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs IV 32.
Exacting of money for playing at tables, cairds, shool boords, and the lyke 1695 Edinb. B. Rec. XII 174.
Ane act dischargeing the keepers of balliard tables kyle alies and bouling greens and shoola boards to allow any of the colledgioners to playe at any of the ordinar dyets of the Colledge —(b) 1687 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXVII 146.
[I] went with John Fairly to Thomson's where we playd at shuffle boord and bullyeards 1693 McKay Kilmarnock 118.
Report was given in to the session of some intimly and unseasonable gamin at shufle-board
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