D defs.my
Menu ☰
Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Puck

/pŭk/ · IPA /pʌk/
01 n. A celebrated fairy, “the merry wanderer of the night;” -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
  1. 1.
    A celebrated fairy, “the merry wanderer of the night;” -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.(Mediæval Myth.) Also: Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug
    “He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.” — Drayton.
  2. 2.
    The goatsucker.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]
02 n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.
  1. 1.
    A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.