stool ball

noun

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

Example Sentences

Stool-ball was so named from the setting-up of a stool to be bowled at.

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I hear, too, we are to have a real old-fashioned Easter Day—heaving and lifting, and stool-ball.

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On the second Christmas, at Plymouth, we find some of the Pilgrims playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball.

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Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.

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On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.

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