A kind of game. “The prettie game which we call purposes” (Cotgrave in v. “Opinion”).—Halliwell’s Dictionary.
Push in the Wash Tub
A ring of girls is formed. Two go in opposite directions outside the ring, and try to get back first to the starting-point; the one succeeding stops there, rejoining the ring, the other girl pushes another girl into the ring, or wash tub, with whom the race is renewed.—Crockham Hill, Kent (Miss Chase).
Push-pin, or Put-pin
A child’s play, in which pins are pushed with an endeavour to cross them. So explained by Ash, but it would seem, from Beaumont and Fletcher, vii. 25, that the game was played by aiming pins at some object.—Halliwell’s Dictionary.
“To see the sonne you would admire,
Goe play at push-pin with his sire.”
—Men’s Miracles, 1656, p. 15.
“Love and myselfe, beleeve me on a day,
At childish push-pin for our sport did play.”
—Herrick’s Works, i. 22.