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Meanings of shinney in English
A simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck.
Usage of shinney in English
1
Can't they shinney 'round, jest as well as other fellers?
2
I have played at cricket or shinney, or boated, since I was nine years old.
3
Football, baseball, shinney, circus,-thingslike that.
4
The children were out playing "shinney."
5
Somebody else got his head hurt at shinney and so that was put a stop to, I believe, at Mr.--'sschool.
6
Lawn hockey is an excellent game and is really the old game of "shinney" or "shinty" played scientifically and with definite rules.
7
The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in England it is also applied to our American game of ice hockey.