Word: hawkeye
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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Hockey, or hawkey, as it was originally spelt, is an old English game. It is played in this country to a limited extent, but not so much as it deserves. When played on ice, the only place where all its possibilities can be brought out, it is fully the peer of football or lacrosse. It requires as much quickness of eye and hand and I may say foot, as either of the games mentioned, but at the same time a learner can enjoy it as well as an old hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict...
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