loggets
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɡ.ɪts/, /ˈlɑɡ.ɪts/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɡ.ɪts/
- (late Early Modern English) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɡəts/[1]
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
loggets
Noun[edit]
loggets (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A game involving throwing pieces of wood at a stake.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), 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, [Act V, scene i]:
- Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them?
References[edit]
- ^ David Crystal, The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation, 2016