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Shinney   Listen
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Shinney  n.  The game of hockey; so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shinney" Quotes from Famous Books



... lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club. V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire. climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade^, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights. [cause to go up] raise, elevate &c 307. go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... is that he was a boy's boy," she broke in rather stiffly. "His games were with the boys of the town,—and they were rough games. Football, baseball, shinney, ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Shinney" :   field hockey



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