shinty
Example Sentences
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It added: "We hope that we can do their memory proud and honour them on the shinty field."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
"Until I came here I didn't know about shinty at all. I didn't know anything about it until the boys started playing."
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Coming from the whisky town of Oban on Scotland’s coast, MacIntyre also plays a local game called shinty that is similar to field hockey.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
A shinty player is used to hitting the ball as often with the left as the right face of the stick, which, interestingly, is raked back to as much as a 5-wood in golf.”
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 14, 2020
It is supposed that their worships were under the impression that billiards was a new form of shinty.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
