noun
- A game played by throwing wooden pins or sticks at a stake or target, popular in medieval and early modern England.
Usage: archaic; historical; usually plural
Examples
- The villagers gathered to play loggats on the green after the harvest.
- Loggats was a common pastime in Tudor England, mentioned in several period documents.
- The rules of loggats resembled modern bowling in some respects.
- Shakespeare's contemporaries would have been familiar with the game of loggats.