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Definition of Bonspiel
1. n. A cur&?;ing match between clubs.
Definition of Bonspiel
1. Noun. (Scotland Canada) A tournament in the sport of curling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bonspiel
1. a curling match or tournament [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonspiel
Literary usage of Bonspiel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kilmahoe: A Highland Pastoral with Other Poems by John Campbell Shairp (1864)
"... THE bonspiel. CAULD and snell is the weather, ye curlers ! come gather, Scotland
summons her best frae the Tweed to the Tay, It's the North o' the Clyde ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1885)
"THE DUKE'S bonspiel. A CURLING STORY. By T. DYKES. ... or Southern cattle, would
have nought to do with a man who could not take his own part in a bonspiel, ..."
3. Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow by John Blackwood Greenshields (1864)
"NOTE N. THE DOUGLAS bonspiel. A POEM: BY CAPTAIN JOHN PATERSON OF ... He was thus
led to write a poem, which he called " The Douglas bonspiel. or Curling at ..."
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