Definition of "puck"

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

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

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

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