1) City or game 2) City south of Eau Claire 3) Field game 4) Field game devised by Indians 5) Field sport 6) French word used in English 7) Game with 10-player teams 8) Game with meshed sticks 9) Game with sticks 10) Goal game using a ball 11) Native American game 12) Native american sport 13) Ncaa sport
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Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American/First Nations Iroquois origin played using a small rubber ball (62.7mm-64.77mm,140g-147g) and and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick. It is often played as a contact sport. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball. Offensive...
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[satellite] According to former Director of Central Intelligence Admiral Stansfield Turner, Lacrosse had its origins in 1978 when a dispute between the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Air Force as to whether a combined optical/radar reconnaissance satellite (the CIA proposal) or a radar-only one (the USAF proposal) should be develo...
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• (n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a `crosse`. The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or thro...
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(French: `the crosier`), competitive sport, modern version of the North American Indian game of baggataway, in which two teams of players use ... [3 related articles]
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Lacrosse 4 under construction A series of American all-weather reconnaissance satellites. Lacrosse was the first spy satellite to use synthetic aperture radar to peer through cloud to form images of the target area. Equipped with a very large radar antenna powered by solar arrays almost 50 mete...
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La·crosse' noun [ French
la crosse , lit., the crosier, hooked stick. Confer
Crosier .] A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a ...
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Lacrosse (La Crosse) is a ball-game originally played by North American Indians of Canada with twelve players on each side, in which the ball is flung by and carried in the crosse, the objective being to throw the ball through the opponents' goal.
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[
n] - a game invented by American indians
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Tactical conventional/nuclear missile system [US]
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noun a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents` goal
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Canadian ball game, adopted from the North American Indians, and named after a fancied resemblance of the lacrosse stick (crosse) to a bishop's crosier. Thongs across the curved end of the crosse form a pocket to carry the small rubber ball. The field is approximately 100 m/110 yd long and a minimum of 55 m/60 yd wide in the men's g...
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