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shuffleboard (n.)
1530s,
shovillaborde
"shovel board," an unexplained alteration of
shove-board
(1520s), from
shove
(v.) +
board
(n.1). Originally a tabletop game (c. 1600), the large-scale version (1877) was invented for play on ocean liners.