Puck

/pʌk/ · noun

Meaning

(now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.
2. (mythology, literature) The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
3. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike.
4. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
5. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
6. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
7. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
8. (Ireland, rustic) billy goat

Example Sentences

William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.

In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.

The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.

He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.

The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.

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• pucks
• pucking
• pucked

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