 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...stick. The game is also practised at the Newcastle races and other places of amusement in the North, with three pegs, which are put into three circular...are deposited, either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives so much for each stick, and gets all the articles that are thrown off so as... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...stick. The game is also practised at the Newcastle races and other places of amusement in the North, with three pegs, which are put into three circular...are deposited, either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives so much for each stick, and gets all the articles that are thrown off so as... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1847 - 518 pages
...stick. The game is also practised at the Newcastle races, and other places of amusement in the north, with three pegs, which are put into three circular...this case each hole contains a peg, about nine inches ALL •IG long, upon which arc deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1850 - 526 pages
...stick. The game is also practised at the Newcastle races, and other places of amusement in the north, with three pegs, which are put into three circular...are deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives so much for each stick, and gets all the articles that are thrown off so as... | |
 | Robert Backhouse Peacock - English language - 1869 - 142 pages
...oftener. Oggle, vi to stare. (Probably a corr. of ogle). Oit'-well. A game practised, at races and fairs and other places of amusement, with three pegs, which...triangle. In this case each hole contains a peg about two feet long upon which is deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives... | |
 | Robert Backhouse Peacock - 1869 - 146 pages
...oftener. Oggle, vi to stare. (Probably a corr. of ogle). Oit'-well. A game practised, at races and fairs and other places of amusement, with three pegs, which...triangle. In this case each hole contains a peg about two feet long upon which is deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1901 - 528 pages
...races, and other places of amusement in the north, with three pegs, which are put into three cir cular holes, made in the ground, about two feet apart, and...In this case each hole contains a peg, about nine inchet long, 'upon which are deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1904 - 212 pages
...amusement in the North with 3 pegs, which are put into 3 circular holes, made in the ground, about 2 feet apart and forming a triangle. In this case each hole contains a peg about 9 inches long upon which are deposited either a small knife or some copper. The person playing gives... | |
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... peg. Should the button fly out of the ring, the player is entitled to double the stipulated value of what he gives for the stick. The game is also practised at the Newcastle races, and other places of amusement in the north, with... 