polo
/ˈpəʊləʊ
/noun [mass noun]
A game of Eastern origin resembling hockey, played on horseback with a long-handled mallet: he is teaching me to play polo [as modifier]: a polo match...
- How can they be world champions at polo, play magnificent hockey, soccer and rugby?
- John's own interest is rugby but he is well able to appreciate a good game of polo.
- Used mainly as cavalry horses, the walers also excelled as mounts at polo, race meetings, and gymkhanas.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Balti, 'ball'.
The name for this game (originally played in the East) is from a Balti Tibetan word meaning ‘ball’.
Rhymes
- rough-boarded
- rough book
- rough bounds
- rough bristle-grass
- rough calf
- roughcast
- roughcaster
- rough chervil
- rough clover
- rough coat
- rough-coated
- rough cock's-foot
- rough collie
- rough copy
- rough cut
- rough dab
- rough diamond
- rough draft
- rough draught
- rough-draw
- rough-dress
- rough-dry
- rough edge
- rough-edged
- rough edges