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plural pucks
(now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. quotations
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.
2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 232
third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked
(chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike. examples
(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. quotations examples
In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.
1886 February 28, Boston Daily Globe, page 2
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184
(chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck. quotations examples
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.
2004, Art Directors Annual, volume 83, Rotovision, page 142
(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. examples
(hurling, camogie) A penalty shot. examples
(Ireland, rustic) billy goat examples
(trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck. quotations examples
The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.
2013, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques