Hockey
a game of ball known as "shinty" in Scotland, and "hurling" in Ireland. It is played with a club curved at the lower end, by a number of persons divided into two parties or sides; and the object of each side is to drive the ball into that part of the field marked off as their opponents' goal. In England the game is quite popular. In the United States it is played by school boys, who sometimes call the game "shinney."