shinty

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shinty (countable and uncountable, plural shinties)

  1. (sports, uncountable) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.
    Synonym: camanachd
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 156:
      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.
  2. (sports, countable) The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.
    Synonym: caman

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