stool ball

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for stool ball

Historical Examples

On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.
The Fifth Queen Crowned
Ford Madox Ford
Stool-ball was so named from the setting-up of a stool to be bowled at.
Games and Songs of American Children
Various
Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.
Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
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
It has lately been revived in East Sussex by the establishment of stool-ball clubs in many villages.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II)
Alice Bertha Gomme

stool ball

Examples from the Web for stool ball

Historical Examples

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

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

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

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

It has lately been revived in East Sussex by the establishment of stool-ball clubs in many villages.