stool-ball
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See also: stoolball
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stool-ball (countable and uncountable, plural stool-balls)
- An old country game, similar in some respects to cricket and rounders, and chiefly played by young men or women at Eastertide.
- A ball used in the game of stool-ball.
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “stool-ball”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.