n.
1 a game played between two teams on a field with curved sticks and a small hard ball.
2 US = ice hockey.
Derivatives:
hockeyist n. (in sense 2).
Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.
2.
Hocktide n. hist. a festival formerly kept on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter, orig. for money-raising.
Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.