shinney
IPA: ʃˈɪni
noun
- (obsolete) The game of hockey.
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Examples of "shinney" in Sentences
- And that 'shinney' referred to hitting the shins of the ball carrier.
- The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in
- Shinny also shinney is an informal type of hockey played on ice or the street.
- After that get some quic blue (like a majic marker) to put on the shinney metal inside the notch exposed by the filing.
- When we had nothing else to do in the way of enjoyment we played the game of "shinney" - a game that gave great pleasure to us all.
- Hockey is usually played on the ice by players on skates, although, like the old game of shinney, it may be played on any level piece of ground.
- "shinney-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping -- he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here.
- In the woodpile he noticed "shinny-sticks" where their owners had put them for safe-keeping – he knew all the "hidie-holes," though it was years and years since he had played "shinney" here.
- Horace was not strong enough to play baseball, and his mamma had forbidden him to play shinney, so he always stayed with the girls at recess, which was often very inconvenient when Elizabeth and Rosie wanted to teeter by themselves or stay indoors and tell secrets.
- It would no doubt surprise the reader, and no less so our Honorable Secretary of the Navy, should I say that I have seen George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Rip Van Winkle, Allen G. Thurman and Hillary Herbert engaged together in a game of shinney.
- Every one resident in the midland counties must be acquainted with the word _nog_, applied to the wooden ball used in the game of "shinney," the corresponding term of which, _nacket_, holds in parts of Scotland, where also a short, corpulent person is called a _nuget_.