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Definition of Shinty
1. n. A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.
Definition of Shinty
1. Noun. (sports) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shinty
1. a game like hockey [n SHINTIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinty
Literary usage of Shinty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"shinty in Scotland, Hockey in England, and Hurling " Ireland, appear to be very
much the same out-of- door sport. We shall describe shinty: — Two parties ..."
2. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"shinty. In the Highlands of Scotland, one of the most popular games, if indeed
it is not the primo favourite, is that known as shinty. ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1890)
"Indeed, a shinty match, with fifty stalwart clansmen on cither side, stripped to
the kilt, with bare heads, arms, and breast, rushing, and shouting, ..."
4. The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders (1906)
"shinty. Rise up ! rise up ! ilk Hielan' wight, The lark is up, the sun is bright ;
Sieze the camac ! grasp it tight, An' haste awa' to shinty. ..."
5. Folk and Hero Tales by James MacDougall, Alfred Trübner Nutt (1891)
"She made the King buy for her son a shinty of gold and a ball of silver. The son
of the first wife had only a wooden shinty and a wooden ball, ..."
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