field hockey

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noun

a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.

Origin of field hockey

First recorded in 1900–05

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Related Words for field hockey

bandy, hurley, hurling, shinny, shinty

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Historical Examples of field hockey

Shinny as played on Union Hill in the nineties had none of the refinements of its dignified cousin, field-hockey.
Rough-Hewn
Dorothy Canfield

British Dictionary definitions for field hockey

field hockey

noun

US and Canadian hockey played on a field, as distinguished from ice hockey

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