shinney

From shindy, from the likelihood of players banging their shins.

shinney (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The game of hockey.
   • 1825, The Medico-chirurgical Review:

     Let the boys play at cricket, trap and ball, shinney, fives, skipping, running, coits, marbles, climbing trees, jumping, &c.

• shinny

• “shinney”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

shinney

1. comparative degree of shenn (“old”)