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Curling

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the strip of ice on which a game of curling is played.

Quotations

1921

The . . . curling club has been fortunate in securing two sheets of ice for the coming season. . . .

1953

Curling has become an extremely popular sport since the dozen white men in the settlement built the two-sheet rink out of slabs in 1944.

1963

One [curling rink] in Calgary has forty-eight sheets of ice.