Word Meanings - SHINTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson.

Related words: (words related to SHINTY)

• SCOTCHING
  Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
• HOCKEY
  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. 2. The stick used by the players.
• SCOTCH RITE
  The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SCOTCH
  Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom , the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck , the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SCOTCH TERRIER
  One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SCOTCHMAN
  A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (more info) 1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• SCOTCH-HOPPER
  Hopscotch.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• HOPSCOTCH
  A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.