loggets
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From log (section of a tree) + -et (masculine diminutive ending.)
Noun[edit]
loggets
- A game involving throwing pieces of wood at a stake.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them?