Shovel-board, the same as shove-groat (q. v.): “two Edward --s, that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece,” Wiv. I, 1, 159 (Edward the Sixth's shillings were then for the most part used at shove-groat or shovel-board).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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