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ˈloggat, ˈlogget Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 6–7, 9 logget, (7 logat, locket), 8–9 loggat.
[app. some kind of derivative of log n.1]
1. An old game (see quot. 1773); also the missile used in the game. (See loggerhead 5.)
[1541: Implied in loggating.] 1581Lambarde Eiren. iii. ii. (1588) 353 Bowles, Closh, Coites, Loggets or other unlawfull Games. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 100 Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at Loggets with 'em? mine ake to thinke on't. 1612Dekker If it be not good Wks. 1873 III. 315, 200 crownes? I ha lost as much at loggets. 1705T. Brown To J. Haines in Coll. Poems 119 What though they ne'er broke Jest, or Pate at Lockets, They've Sence enough, for all that, in their Pockets. 1773Steevens in Shaks. Wks. X. 315 This is a game played in several parts of England even at this time. A stake is fixed into the ground; those who play, throw loggats at it, and he that is nearest the stake, wins: I have seen it played in different counties at their sheep-shearing feasts. 1858Sat. Rev. 17 Apr. 401/1 Let us take the case of a fine old English gentleman in a country house on a wet day in the middle of the sixteenth century. After he had..played at bowls or loggats till his arms ached, how was he to pass the time till supper?
2. A pole, heavy stake.
1600Holland Livy xxx. x. 746 The enemies from out of the Carthaginian ships, began to cast out certaine loggets [orig. asseres] with yron hookes at the end (which the souldiors use to call Harpagones) for to take hold upon the Roman ships. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman i. ii. ix. 79 Beating of fruit downe with long poales, loggets, or such like. 1633B. Jonson Tale Tub iv. vi, Now are they tossing of his legs and arms, Like loggets at a pear-tree.
3. attrib. and Comb., as loggat-ground; loggat-playing adj.
1793Blount in Reed's Shaks. XV. 305 note, A loggat-ground, like a skittle-ground, is strewed with ashes, but is more extensive. 1884Black Jud. Shakes. iii, None of your logget-playing, tavern-jesting, come-kiss-me-Moll lovers. |