stool ball
noun
a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England
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Historical Examples of stool ball
On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.
The Fifth Queen CrownedFord Madox Ford
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.
IvanhoeWalter 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 EnglandAlice 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