DCHP-1 Online

lacrosse stick

• a stick hooked at one end and strung with leather thongs crosshatched by strings of gut to form a kind of pouch for carrying and throwing a ball in the game of lacrosse.

  See also: cross ((1))  lacrosse  

  • 1884  Capt. Bill's lacrosse sticks [are] on hand.
  • 1966  At playtime . . . the young men [used] wooden lacrosse sticks.