Rugby Definition

rŭgbē
noun
Famous school for boys located in Rugby, England: founded 1567
Webster's New World
A kind of football popular in England, played by two opposing teams of usually 15 players: action is continuous and the oval ball may be passed laterally or backward, kicked forward, or carried: a forerunner of American tackle football, first played at Rugby school.
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A town in Warwickshire, where the sport of rugby is thought to have originated.

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Origin of Rugby

  • 1823: Named after Rugby School in Warwickshire where William Webb Ellis "˜with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game'. From the plaque at the school.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Rugby School, England

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rugby Sentence Examples

  • After being privately educated by his mother and tutors, he entered Rugby school in 1841.

  • He took solace in the arms of rugby players.

  • The weight and speed of goods trains vary enormously according to local conditions, but the following figures, which refer to traffic on the London & North-Western railway between London and Rugby, may be taken as representative of good English practice.

  • Its early course is southwesterly to Rugby, thereafter it runs west and south-west to Warwick, receiving the Leam on the east.

  • The total fall of the river is about Soo ft.; from Rugby about 230 ft., and from Warwick 120 ft.

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