hockey

2 definitions found

hockey - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hockey \Hock"ey\, n. [From Hook, n.]
     1. A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks
        curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small
        object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and
        hawkey.]
        [1913 Webster]

hockey - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hockey
      n 1: a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open
           field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a
           ball into the opponents' net [syn: field hockey,
           hockey]
      2: a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six
         skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the
         opponents' goal with angled sticks [syn: ice hockey,
         hockey, hockey game]