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chewing-ball

chewing-ball is the alternative form of chewing ball.

Meaning of chewing ball

Noun

chewing ball (plural chewing balls)

  1. A medicinal ball attached to a horse's bit so that the chewing will improve its appetite.
    • CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice...1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183

Forms of chewing-ball

pluralchewing-balls

Questions about chewing-ball

What is chewing-ball the alternative form of?
Chewing-ball is the alternative form of chewing ball.

Words near chewing-ball in the dictionary

  1. chewing the scenery
  2. chewing tobacco
  3. chewing tobaccos
  4. chewing up
  5. chewing up and spitting out
  6. chewing-ball
  7. chewing-balls
  8. chewing-gum
  9. chewing-gumless
  10. chewing-gummy
  11. chewing-gums

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