1. n.1 a game played between two teams on a field with curved sticks and a small hard ball.
2 US ice hockey.
Derivatives:
hockeyist n. (in sense 2).
Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn. 2.
Hocktide n. hist. a festival formerly kept on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, orig. for money-raising.
Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.