troll-my-dames

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1. archaicuncountableThe game of nineholes.

   A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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   With his having played tennez the previous morn, followed by troll-my-dames in the afternoon, Suffolk's suggestion to practice weight lifting and wrestling was accepted with good cheer.

   2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood

   At the far end two women were engaged in a game of troll-my-dames, which involved rolling leather balls toward purpose-made holes in a trolling bench.

   2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down beside St. Anne's Well