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peewee
DCHP-2 (Jul 2016)
Spelling variants:pee wee, pee-wee
1n. — Sports
a youth player in organized sports, usually in the 11-13 year age range.
Type: 5. Frequency — The term peewee is used in a number of North American contexts. Hockey Canada used it for the 12- and 13-year olds until the end of 2002, when they revamped their system by generally taking a year off of all age categories, i.e. pewee is now the 11- and 12-year olds (see the two Hockey Canada references). The term is most frequently used in Canada (see Chart 1).
Quotations
1937
Just after Peewee hockey players packed their skates away for the summer, sportsmen here began organizing a baseball league along similar lines.
The new organization will take its club and player names from the National Baseball League, Manager Tommy Kolt said.
Little more than a month ago youngsters between nine and fourteen years of age were skating in organized leagues in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and even Ontario, as Peewee National Hockey League players. Age limit for the baseball league is the same as that for the winter sport, and the manager Kolt expects to have his stars ready for league games July 1.
1947
For raising lacrosse players, Brampton has three series: Novice, 8-10 years; peewee, 11-13; midget, 14-17, with four teams in each.
1958
On Wednesday evening the Cut Knife PeeWees were hosts to the Unity team and defeated them in a hard fought game. . . .
1961
". . . You take the hockey outfits--Peewees, Juniors, Intermediates--ain't a year Wing didn't put up the money for their uniforms. . . ."
1962
In the mosquito and peewee age-bracket, the fee is optional.
1975
BEDFORD -- The 1975 season of the Bedford Minor Softball Association will start at 6 p.m., May 26, at Meadowbrook Diamond. Atom Division will use this diamond all season. Peewee, Bantam, Midget and Squirt divisions, will use the Legion Diamond. Squirts and Peewees will play at 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursdays, and bantams will play Wednesdays and Fridays.
1990
Last year, as peewees, the teams played four overtime periods before the Knights took the gold medal in the North Toronto Select Tournament. Yesterday at North Toronto Arena it took the Knights, who weren't supposed to exist this year, just three periods to beat North Toronto 4-3.
"We weren't going to have a minor bantam team," said Greg Kelly, president of the Knights of Columbus. "The coaches came to us and said the boys wanted it. This - Knights of Columbus and North Toronto - has turned into one of the best rivalries in the tournament."
2008
"I came across the clothing line through a fellow Oakville Hornets' mother," says Mitch Maurice, wife of former Leafs' head coach Paul Maurice and mom to 11-year-old peewee-level player, Sydney.
"There was an in-home sale of the items just before Christmas and I figured I'd look for a few unique things for my daughter. I like the quality, affordability and uniqueness of the products and she loves the colours, the mix-and-match options and the slogans. I'll be checking at the rinks for the next opportunity to purchase some more," she adds.
2011
Pardon Matt Dumba for being a follower . . . for now.
At the tender age of 12, he decided to join a peewee hockey buddy and convert from forward to defence. Except his pal was a fairly large lad and Matt, well, he was considerably smaller. But he could skate. Oh, how he could skate.
2016
Good summer heat made for dry rodeo grounds, which resulted in some crazy and dusty rodeo action.
There were 73 competitors for the open events, along with 16 juniors and three peewees.
Jonah Antoine of Cache Creek was quick with the rope as he and his brother Travis Antoine took first place in Team Roping.
2n. — Lumbering
an undersized log.
Type: 3. Semantic Change — A figurative change influenced by the basic meaning of peewee as something little.
Quotations
1965
. . . the nine sorting categories [of logs] . . . are: hemlock, sawlogs . . . peewees . . . and, lastly, boomsticks.
2004
Examples of sort type include high-grade, pee wee, sawlog, merch, gang, pulp, peeler, etc. All logs graded and
scaled under Coast grading and scaling rules (regardless of indicated industry sort) are included in log price
calculations. The only exceptions are burnt logs and cants, which are not included in log price calculations.
References
- Hockey Canada • "Peewee"
- Hockey Canada • "Age Groupings in Minor Hockey"
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