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SQUAILS (from skail or kail, a ninepin)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 743 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SQUAILS (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 i 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 (q.v.).


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