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.
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.
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