Angled Guard—A stone which obliquely covers or guards one stone or more.
Bias—An inclination in the ice, tending to lead a stone off the direction given to it by the player.
Block the ice—See “fill the ice.”
Boardhead—See “brough.”
Bonspel, bonspiel, bonspeel—(French, bon, good, and Belgic, spell, a play—a good game; or Suio-Gothic, bonne, a husbandman; or Belgic, bonne, a village or district; because one district challenges another to play at this game.) A match at Curling between two opposite parties.
Break an egg on—To strike one stone very gently with another.
Brough—(Alemanic, bruchus, a camp, often circular). The space within the largest circle drawn round the tee.
Channel-stane—A Curling stone is so named in the southern counties of Scotland, probably from stones found in streams having been first used for curling.
Chuckle to—To make two or more inwicks up a port to a given stone.
Creep—(Come creeping up the rink) the stones are said to creep when they are thrown with little force.