The shinty fell bos, and our hero took to it for the highway to the north.
As neat a player as ever took shinty in hand, master!
He lay hold on an oaken shinty stick that hung on the wall, property of the ferry-house landlord's son.
I only in the humour for playing at shinty or fishing like the boys on the moor-lochs behind the town.
Their leader gave to the goodman of the house that indispensable adjunct of the evening's mummeries, the Caisein-uchd, the breast-stripe of a sheep wrapped round the point of a shinty stick.
Shinty is the Scotch name for hockey: the game is played with a ball and curved sticks or clubs.
Shinty was suited to a New Year's day; it kept the spirits up and the body warm.
Shinty my boy, shinty was our great game," and Mr Chisholm looked as if he greatly pitied the degeneracy of the latter days.
Our leader was a carpenter, named Paterson, who was the hero of many a keenly contested shinty match.
At that time shinty was a universal winter game, and greatly we prided ourselves on our smartness at the sport.
I have played shinty myself" said Bill, "and I see it is still played in Badenoch and Strathglass, and among wild Highlanders in Edinburgh.
Val got his shinty club and his parish hall, and if he wants anything for the church or for himself he has but to mention it.
It has been said that Shinty and Hockey differ in this respect, that in the latter two goals are erected, each being formed by a piece of stick with both ends stuck in the ground.
But in Shinty there are also two goals, called hails; the object of each party being to drive the ball beyond their own hail, but there is no hole through which it must be driven.
Scrush A game much like Shinty between two sides of boys, each with bandies (scrushes) trying to knock a roundish stone over the other's line.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shinty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
