stool ball

noun

a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England

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Words nearby stool ball

stooge, stook, stookey-scarff operation, stookie, stool, stool ball, stool pigeon, stooly, stoop, stoop ball, stoop labor

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Example sentences from the Web for stool ball

Stool-ball was so named from the setting-up of a stool to be bowled at.
Games and Songs of American Children|Various
I hear, too, we are to have a real old-fashioned Easter Day—heaving and lifting, and stool-ball.
Animal Ghosts|Elliott O'Donnell
On the second Christmas, at Plymouth, we find some of the Pilgrims playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England|Alice Morse Earle
Stool-ball, like all ball games, was usually played at Easter for tansy cakes.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II)|Alice Bertha Gomme

On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.
The Fifth Queen Crowned|Ford Madox Ford

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