Definitions
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- noun A hard
ball , similar in size to atennis ball , used inhurling
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hurling gear consists of a helmet, a wooden stick made of ash called a hurley, and a ball called a sliotar.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Two teams of 15 players compete to score the most points by hitting the ball, called a sliotar, between the opposing team's goalposts.
Slate Magazine Loren Berlin 2011
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Hurling gear consists of a helmet, a wooden stick made of ash called a hurley, and a ball called a sliotar.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Hurlers use a wooden stick to pass a ball, called a sliotar, which also can be caught and passed with bare hands.
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Hurlers use a wooden stick to pass a ball, called a sliotar, which also can be caught and passed with bare hands.
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Well, perhaps if all one and half million of us were allowed a trip across the Atlantic every now and again to show easily impressed Yanks with more money than sense the pros and cons of striking a sliotar with a caman maybe it would be like this all time.
Archive 2007-07-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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After a player has held the sliotar twice, it must hit the ground.
The Daily Barometer 2010
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They can carry it in their hand up to four steps and then bounce the sliotar off the hurl back into their hand, but this can only be done twice each time a player receives the sliotar.
The Daily Barometer 2010
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Players can move the sliotar around the field in a variety of ways.
The Daily Barometer 2010
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There are two pieces of equipment used in hurling: the sliotar, a ball similar to the ball used in field hockey, and the hurl, or hurley.
The Daily Barometer 2010
sionnach commented on the word sliotar
the ball used in a game of hurling. See e.g. http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliotar (a Wikipedia page written entirely in Gaelic)
November 10, 2007