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chewing balls

chewing balls is the plural 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

Questions about chewing balls

What is chewing balls the plural of?
Chewing balls is the plural of chewing ball.

Words near chewing balls in the dictionary

  1. chewiest
  2. chewin'
  3. chewiness
  4. chewing
  5. chewing ball
  6. chewing balls
  7. chewing gum
  8. chewing gumless
  9. chewing gums
  10. chewing lice
  11. chewing louse

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