shinny-on-your-own-side

Updated: May 6, 2025

They knew that the boys had divided into sides and were playing old-fashioned hockey, "shinny-on-your-own-side" as it was locally called. Above the rumbling of the train they heard the crack of the shinny-stick against the wooden block, and the "z-z-z-zip!" of the missile as it scaled over the ice.

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp : or, the Old Lumberman's Secret