Meaning of Shinty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
   uncountable
2. The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.
   countable

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Examples

“Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.”

“To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.”

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