puck-handling
See also: puckhandling and puck handling
English
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Etymology
Noun
- (ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
- 1921 March 12, Boston Daily Globe, page 6:
- Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]
- 1965 May 15, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 9:
- […] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.
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Further reading
- Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “puck-handling”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Stefan Dollinger, Margery Fee, editors (2017), “puck-handling, n.”, in DCHP-2 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 2nd edition, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, →OCLC.