| George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1823 - 704 pages
...composed of heaven and earth. PALLE-MAI'LLE (Sport.) a game where a round bowl is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, standing at either end of an alley. PA'LLET (Her.) the diminutive of the pale, being one half of its breadth. Several pallets may be borne... | |
| 1833 - 460 pages
...benefit of clergy allowed them. 5. Origin of Pell Moll. 'Pale Maille' is a game where 'a round ball is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron,...at either end of an alley, as in St. James's Park — hence Pell Mell. C. Epitaph Jor a Bankrupt. The Italian epitaph is no less applicable to the bankrupt... | |
| Great Britain - 1833 - 462 pages
...benefit of clergy allowed them. 5. Origin ofl'tll Mail. ' Pale Maille' is a game where a round hait is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron, standing at cither end of an alley, as in St. James's Park — hence Pcli Mell. 6. fipitaph ./or a Bankrupt. The... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 494 pages
...very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I lead. Home and to bed. , through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an alley, one), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins." In France, it was... | |
| Archaeology - 1854 - 506 pages
...and English Dictionary. — " Palemaille : a game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of iron (standing at either end of an ally one) which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes." Howell and... | |
| 1863 - 624 pages
...give its name to the street; the game was a sort of croquet; "a round bowle," says an old authority, " is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron standing at either end of an alley, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins — heretofore used in the... | |
| 1865 - 642 pages
...that year of Blount's 'Glossographia' we are told that 'paille maille is a game wherein a round bowle, is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing at either end of the alley), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins.' This game... | |
| 1865 - 1022 pages
...year "t Blount's " Glossographia" we are to!J that " paille maille is a game wherein a round bowle, is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing a'. either end of the alley), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1867 - 484 pages
...muille, French ; at which word Cotgrave thus describes the game : — " A game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an alley, one), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins." In France, it was... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - English language - 1868 - 542 pages
...among the exercises to be used moderately by Prince Henry. " Pale maille a game wherein a round bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron, standing at either end of an alley, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins. This game it used at the... | |
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