Shinney is a game from North America. `For Salish Indians, shinney was a game for women.` A shinney ball is made of `buffalo hair, sand, suede and sinew.` For other Montana tribes, everyone played, according to the International Traditional Games Society in East Glacier. Jeremy Red Eagle of Helena introduces some of the level 1 participants to...
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• (n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
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Shin'ney noun [ CF.
Shindy .] The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
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