(ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
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The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.