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baggataway [< Algonk.; cf. Cree pakahatūwēo he plays ball] Hist. 
n. a game formerly played by Indians in eastern Canada, each player having a ball and stick equipped with a netted pouch at one end; an early form of lacrosse.
- 1763 (1901) Baggatiway, called by the Canadians le jeu de la crosse, is played with a bat and a ball. The bat is about four feet in length, curved, and terminating in a sort of racket. Two posts are planted in the ground, at a considerable distance from each other, as a mile, or more. Each party has its post, and the game consists of throwing the ball up to the post of the adversary. The ball, at the beginning is placed in the middle of the course, and each party endeavours as well to throw the ball out of the direction of its own post, as into that of the adversary's.
- 1844 The Indians are very partial to, and exceedingly dextrous at, a game called the "Baggatiway". . . .
- 1965 The Sacs lost the baggataway war staged for Jack Cartier's benefit, but they got in some good whacks before subsiding.
- 1763 (1901) Baggatiway, called by the Canadians le jeu de la crosse, is played with a bat and a ball. The bat is about four feet in length, curved, and terminating in a sort of racket. Two posts are planted in the ground, at a considerable distance from each other, as a mile, or more. Each party has its post, and the game consists of throwing the ball up to the post of the adversary. The ball, at the beginning is placed in the middle of the course, and each party endeavours as well to throw the ball out of the direction of its own post, as into that of the adversary's.