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[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French dialect; Origin: 'hockey stick', from Old North French, 'tool with a hook', from croc 'hook', probably from Old Norse krokr; CROOK1]
a game played on grass in which players hit balls with wooden mallets (=long-handled hammers) so that they roll under curved wires