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curling †

n. a winter sport first popular in Scotland, played by two teams of four players, each of whom slides, in turn, two stones down the surface of a sheet of ice, a team's object being to finish with its stones closest to the "tee" in the centre of the target area.
See also: roaring game
- 1818 Curling matches are sometimes made [in Montreal].
- 1827 (1829) Notwithstanding the numbers of lakes and rivers which abound in Canada, and all the intensity of the winter frost, still the game of curling, the great ice amusement of Scotland, is unknown.
- 1841 The Montreal Club was instituted in January 1807, thirty-four years ago; and Curling was kept up there with great spirit for several years, until a temporary relaxation was occasioned, for three winters, by war with the United States, which broke out in 1812; when the Curlers had to bear arms and assist in defending the country.
- 1966 [Headline] Saskatchewan upset in women's curling.