butt-ending

Hockey

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice of jabbing or thrusting the handle end of the stick into an opponent's body in order to slow him down.

Quotations

1955

A hockey coach says even youngsters playing hockey are taught kneeing and butt-ending.

1965

The art of butt-ending is almost an obsolete illegality in hockey.