puck

noun

1. (archaic)A mischievous or hostile spirit.

   “William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.”

2. The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
3. A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.

   “In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.”

   “The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.”

4. (Canada)An object shaped like a puck.

   “He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.”

5. A pointing device with a crosshair.
6. A penalty shot.
7. (Ireland)billy goat
8. A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

   “The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.”

verb

1. (Ireland)To hit, strike.

name

1. A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
2. One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.