- A game of ball, originating among the North American
Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in
England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled
racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the
crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry
it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the
field.
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