stool ball

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noun

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

QUIZ

THINGAMABOB OR THINGUMMY: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE US AND UK TERMS IN THIS QUIZ?

Do you know the difference between everyday US and UK terminology? Test yourself with this quiz on words that differ across the Atlantic.

Question 1 of 7

In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

candystring

candyfloss

candypuff

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Words nearby stool ball

stood, stooge, stook, stookie, stool, stool ball, stool pigeon, stooly, stoop, stoop ball, stoop labor

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How to use stool ball in a sentence

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

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