Schanzeln

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Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim : The bowling company, 1834

The Schanzeln or Schanz'ln are a type of bowling game , which is often dealt with very high stakes money, making it on the list of prohibited games of the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Justice was led by 1904th Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an avid fan of this game .

About the meaning of the word

In a game of skittles, a jump is the pool of money that is won in full by the one who pushes the most skittles.

Schanze is derived from the French chance , Schanzel is the diminutive and schanzeln is the verb derived from it.

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  • Matthias Lexer : Carinthian Dictionary. Christmas games and songs from Carinthia [sic]. 1862
  • Hugo Mareta : Samples of a dictionary of the Austrian vernacular. Second attempt . In: Annual report of the kk Ober-Gymnasium on the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1865 . Vienna 1865, pp. I – XII and 1–67.
  • Leopold Ziller: What is not in the Duden. A Salzburg dialect dictionary . 2nd edition St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee 1995 (EA 1979).

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