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† ˈpenny-prick Obs.
An old game of which the nature is uncertain.
It appears to have consisted in aiming at a penny, perhaps placed originally as the prick or mark for shooting at; see also quots. c 1770, 1829.
1421Maldon, Essex, Court-Rolls (Bundle 12, No. 8) Cum hominibus utentibus ludos illegitimos, viz. alias scaccarulos et penypryke ad gravitatem proximorum suorum. 1447Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 101 Yong peple..within the saide Cloistre have exercised unlawfull games as the toppe, queke, penny prykke and most atte tenys, by the which the walles of the saide Cloistre have be defowled and the glas wyndowes all to brost. 1552Nottingham Rec. IV. 102 Dyce, slyde grote, penypricke, caylles, tennes. 1610T. Scott Philomythie, etc. (1616) M j b, Their idle houres..They spend at shoue-boord, or at penny pricke, At dice, cards, tennis. [c1770in Grose's Provinc. Gloss. MS. Add. (P.) (E.D.D.) Penny-prick, a sport, throwing at halfpence placed upon sticks which are called Hobs. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iv. 353. 1829 J. Hunter Hallams. Gloss., Penny-prick, a game consisting of casting oblong pieces of iron at a mark.]
Hence † ˈpenny-pricker Obs., one who played at penny-prick.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 11 Tyburne collopes, and peny pryckers; Bowlers, mas shoters, and quayters. |