half-ball

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noun

a contact in billiards, etc, in which the player aims through the centre of the cue ball to the edge of the object ball, so that half the object ball is covered
(as modifier)a half-ball stroke

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Words nearby half-ball

half-asleep, half-assed, half-awake, halfback, half-baked, half-ball, half bath, halfbeak, half binding, half-blind, half-blind joint

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How to use half-ball in a sentence

There was a thin thread of white that ran across the dun-colored range and reached that half-ball and then ended.
Space Platform|Murray Leinster
The great half-ball of metal loomed larger and larger but did not appear to grow nearer as Sally practiced first aid.
Space Platform|Murray Leinster
It looks like a half-ball of silver; this appearance is due to a quantity of air.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. Houghton
Strokes 15 and 16 must be played gently with a half ball, and 17 with a quarter ball.
Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements|Various

The planet's surface became a half-ball, of which a part lay in darkness.
Talents, Incorporated|William Fitzgerald Jenkins