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
One example is the making of shinty sticks, used in a traditional team game mostly played in the Scottish Highlands.
From BBC ● May 11, 2023
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
In it, he is smashing a low, galloping drive with one of those shinty sticks.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 14, 2020
At England and Scotland, too—that most expressive game of former Border feuds—we were most expert; and have seen many suns descend on our protracted contests at shinty.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
