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Cross-Checking - Ice Hockey (gambling) and scoparius (iou)


Cross-Checking - Ice Hockey (gambling)


A minor penalty which occurs when a player holds his stick in both hands and drives the shaft into an opponent; a stick check where a player has both hands on the stick and no part of the stick on the ice; if serious injury is caused or blood is drawn it becomes a major penalty and a game misconduct.

scoparius (iou)



scoparius noun. L19.
[mod. Latin (see below): cf. SCOPA noun1.]
Pharmacology. The tops of common broom, Cytisus scoparius, containing sparteine and scoparin, used as a diuretic, purgative, and emetic.