Shovel-board.

A game in which three counters were shoved or slid over a smooth board; a game very popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the table itself, and sometimes even the counters were so called. Slender speaks of “two Edward shovel-boards.” (Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Shore (Jane)
Shoreditch
Shorne (Sir John) or Master John Shorne
Short
Short Stature (Noted Men of)
Shot
Shot in the Locker
Shot Window (A)
Shotten Herring
Shoulder
Shovel-board
Show
Shrew-mouse
Shrieking Sisterhood (The)
Shrimp
Shropshire
Shrovetide Cocks
Shunamite’s House (The)
Shunt
Shut up
Shy