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قراءة كتاب The Canadian Curler's Manual Or, an account of curling, as practised in Canada: with remarks on the history of the game
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The Canadian Curler's Manual Or, an account of curling, as practised in Canada: with remarks on the history of the game
abolish the language of the rink, as it would be for the gentlemen of certain learned professions, to substitute the Queen’s English for their most unclassical Latin. An explanation of the following terms, which are in constant use, is therefore indispensable in a work of this nature;
Angled Guard—A stone which obliquely covers or guards one stone or more.
Bias—An inclination in the ice, tending to lead a stone off the direction given to it by the player.
Block the ice—See “fill the ice.”
Boardhead—See “brough.”
Bonspel, bonspiel, bonspeel—(French, bon, good, and Belgic, spell, a play—a good game; or Suio-Gothic, bonne, a husbandman; or Belgic, bonne, a village or district; because one district challenges another to play at this game.) A match at Curling between two opposite parties.
Break an egg on—To strike one stone very gently with another.
Brough—(Alemanic, bruchus, a camp, often circular). The space within the largest circle drawn round the tee.
Channel-stane—A Curling stone is so named in the southern counties of Scotland, probably from stones found in streams having been first used for curling.
Chuckle to—To make two or more inwicks up a port to a given stone.
Creep—(Come creeping up the rink) the stones are said to creep when they are thrown with little force.
Curling—(German, kurzweillin, to play for amusement; or Teutonic, krullen, krollen, sinuare, to bend,—as the great art of the game is to make the stones bend, twist (quod vide), Curl, towards the mark, when they cannot reach it in a straight line.) Sliding stones along the ice towards a mark.
Dead guard—A stone which completely covers another, concealing it from the view of the next player, is a dead guard upon that other.
Deliver—To throw the stone.
Director—The same as “skip” or “skipper.”
Draw a shot—to play to a spot pointed out by the director, having no other stone to strike or rest upon.
Dour, drug, dull—The state of the ice when the stone cannot easily be thrown the length of the rink.
End—That portion of the game in which the stones are all played to one end of the rink.
Guard—To lay a stone in a line before another; or the stone so laid.
Hack, or hatch—(Icelandic, hiaka, or Suio-Gothic, hacka, a chop, cut, or crack), a cut in the ice, in which the player places his foot to prevent it from slipping as he delivers his stone.
Head—See “End.”
Hindhand—He who plays the last stone on his side.
Hog Score—The line drawn across the rink, about seven yards from the tee; stones which do not pass this are thrown aside.
How ice—The ice in the middle of the rink, hollowed by the friction of the stones; also called white ice.
Inring, inwick—See “Wicking.”
Keen—The opposite of dour.
Leader—He who plays first in order in his party.
Lie in the bosom of—To play a stone so as gently to touch and lie before another.
Outwick—See “Wicking.”
Pat lid—A Curling stone lying on the tee.
Port—An opening between two stones, wide enough to admit another to be played through.
Rack—A word used in some districts instead of rink.
Redd the ice—(Icelandic, rada ordinare, to put in order; also, to warn, to advise,) to clear the ice, or to break the guards with a stone strongly played, so as to expose the tee or the winner; to “ride” successfully.
Rest—To draw to any object or point so as not to pass it.
Ride—To throw a stone with great force towards one or more other stones, in order to remove them from their position.
Rink—The ice on which the game is played.
Shot—A stone played; in another sense, a stone which counts.
Skip, or skipper—(Probably from Suio-Gothic, skeppare, a master), a director.
Tee—(Icelandic, tia, to point out the place; or, Teutonic, tygh-en, to point to), the winning point to which the stones are played.
Twist—To give to a stone, on its being delivered, a rotary motion, so that it revolves on its sole as it slides along the rink, and bends from the straight line, when the force with which it has been thrown is nearly exhausted.
Wicking, wick, inwick—(Suio-Gothic, wick, a corner; or Teutonic, wyck, a turning), to make a stone take an oblique direction by striking another on the side.
PART II.
HISTORY OF CURLING
The early history of Curling is involved in such obscurity, that the time even of the antiquarians might be better employed in eating Beef and Greens, or in playing the Game, than in endeavoring to discover its origin. Some of these gentlemen have, from the definition given of a certain word in an old dictionary, come to the conclusion that Curling was originally the game of quoits played upon the ice. Kilian, in his Etymologica Teutonicae Linguoe, renders the Teutonic words “kluyten,” “kalluyten,” ludere massis, sive globis glaciatis; certare discis in aequore glaciato. The term kluyte, or klyte, is still used in some parts of Scotland, where it always signifies to “fall flat” or to fall so that the broadest part of the falling body first comes in contact with the ground; but it never has any reference to moving on a plane surface. The words ludere and certare throw no light on the manner in which the globus or discus was used. But until it can be shown that they were moved upon the ice—not pitched through the air—it is difficult to perceive the relation between “kluyten” and curling. As soon as the stones were played by being slidden—if the antiquarians could only determine the period of that event—a new game was introduced, affording opportunities equal to those of the quoit for muscular exercise, and a much wider field for the exercise of the judgment.
The earliest notice of Curling which has been discovered is in Cambden’s Britannia, published in 1607. In it, Coppinsha, one of the Orkney islands, is mentioned as famous for “excellent stones for the game called Curling.” This shows that it was then in considerable repute. In the “Life of William Guthrie”, who in the year 1644 was ordained minister of Fenwick, in Ayrshire, it is stated that he was fond of the innocent recreations which then prevailed, “among which was Curling.” In 1684, the game is taken notice of in Fountainhall’s Decisions. Pennycuik, also in the seventeenth century, declares that
“To curl on the ice doth greatly please,
Being a manly Scottish exercise.”
And he celebrates the game as calculated
“To clear the brain, stir up the native heart,
And give a gallant appetite for