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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v. — Hockey
body-check heavily so as to knock sprawling and shake up seriously.
Quotations
1962
It makes a player keep his head up, thus he isn't as liable to get creamed by a bodychecking forward or defenceman.
1964
Jean Beliveau had missed the final period after being creamed by Edward Shack. . . .
2v. — Lumbering
See quote.
Quotations
1958
Little concern was ever voiced . . . over the waste that occurred in the process of selective cutting or "creaming", whereby the best trees were logged at the sacrifice of all the rest in the area.