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|Term=Pellet | |Term=Pellet | ||
|Game Family=Baseball | |Game Family=Baseball | ||
|Location=Scotland | |Location=Scotland (Orkney) | ||
|Description=<p>(Cat’s Pellet, Cat’s Pallet, Gidigadie) - per MacLagan. This game is played like Tip-Cat, but with a ball and a one-handed bat, and with plugging instead of crossing to put runners out. An Orkney game. Elsewhere MacLagan described the game as using four small holes in a twelve-foot square. An 1882 source finds a usage of “cat’s pellet” in 1648, and defines it as “a game, perhaps the same as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area.</p> | |Game Tags=1800s, Britain, Pre-1700, | ||
|Sources=<p>MacLagan, "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'", page 87.</p> | |Description=<p>(Cat’s Pellet, Cat’s Pallet, Gidigadie) - per MacLagan (1905). This game is played like Tip-Cat, but with a ball and a one-handed bat, and with plugging instead of crossing to put runners out. An Orkney game. Elsewhere MacLagan described the game as using four small holes in a twelve-foot square. An 1882 source finds a usage of “cat’s pellet” in 1648, and defines it as “a game, perhaps the same as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore, </em>volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.</p> | |||
<p>R. C. MacLagan, <em>The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk-lore Point of View</em> (Blackwood and Son, 1905), page 54.</p> | <p>R. C. MacLagan, <em>The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk-lore Point of View</em> (Blackwood and Son, 1905), page 54.</p> | ||
<p><em>The Encyclopedic Dictionary</em> (Cassel, Peter and Galpin, 1882), page 625.</p> | <p><em>The Encyclopedic Dictionary</em> (Cassel, Peter and Galpin, 1882), page 625.</p> | ||
<p>J. Harland, <em>A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the </em | <p>J. Harland, <em>A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the </em>Sixteenth<em> Century</em> (Chetham Society, 1864), page 156.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 11:44, 24 June 2012
| Game | Pellet |
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| Game Family | Baseball |
| Location | Scotland (Orkney) |
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| Tags | 1800s, Britain, Pre-1700 |
| Description | (Cat’s Pellet, Cat’s Pallet, Gidigadie) - per MacLagan (1905). This game is played like Tip-Cat, but with a ball and a one-handed bat, and with plugging instead of crossing to put runners out. An Orkney game. Elsewhere MacLagan described the game as using four small holes in a twelve-foot square. An 1882 source finds a usage of “cat’s pellet” in 1648, and defines it as “a game, perhaps the same as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area. |
| Sources | MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore, volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87. R. C. MacLagan, The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk-lore Point of View (Blackwood and Son, 1905), page 54. The Encyclopedic Dictionary (Cassel, Peter and Galpin, 1882), page 625. J. Harland, A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the Sixteenth Century (Chetham Society, 1864), page 156. |
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