rugby

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A team sport played with an oval ball that players can carry, kick, and pass backwards.

   He plays rugby for his school every Saturday.

2. 2
   name

   A town in Warwickshire, England, where the sport is said to have begun.

   The game takes its name from the town of Rugby.

From earlier Rokeby (rook + -by), from Middle English Rokebi, an alteration (using the Middle English bi (“village, town”), from Old Norse býr (“town, settlement”)) of Old English Rocheberie, possibly from earlier Old English *Hrōceburh (literally “rook-fort, Rookbury”).

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