The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Pase – Pad

Pase

Action of passing the bull from one side to another by using the muleta, or small cape.

Paseo

Parade of the bull fighters.

Picador

Horseman armed with lance.

Pinchazo

Half completed sword-thrust.

Pinta

Colour or marking.

Plaza

The bull-ring building.

Puntillero

He who ends the bull (if necessary, after the matador has given a mortal wound), by using a braining dagger.

Patlid

A stone that comes to rest exactly upon the tee.

Piltycock

The original form of curling-stone, and really a large stone quoit, with depressions for fingers and thumb. Also called Kutingstone.

Point Game

A variety of curling, in which each player tries in turn certain assigned shots, receiving marks in the measure of his success..

The nine shots are: (I) Striking; (2) Inwicking; (3) Drawing; (4) Guarding; (5) Chap and Lie; (6) Wick and Curl in; (7) Raising; (8) Chipping the winner; (9) Drawing through a

Port

The tenth shot, to be played in the event of a dead-heat, is Outwicking.

Pad

A light form of saddle, used in some sets of harness.

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