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dustball

dustball noun: a ball of dust.

Noun

dustball (plural dustballs)

  1. A ball of dust.
  2. (archaic) A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse.
    • Long residence in lime districts had furnished the experience, that phosphatic calculi are not even as common as among the horses and ponies of coal-mines; and, further, that both phosphatic calculi, and more generally mixed or the dustball kind, are very prevalent in those pits, and even districts...1885, George Armatage, Every Man His Own Horse Doctor, page 336

Forms of dustball

pluraldustballs

Origin of dustball

From dust + ball.

Questions about dustball

What does dustball mean?
Dustball means a ball of dust.
What part of speech is dustball?
Dustball is a noun.
What is the plural of dustball?
The plural of dustball is dustballs.

Words near dustball in the dictionary

  1. dust-up
  2. dust-ups
  3. dustable
  4. dustbag
  5. dustbags
  6. dustball
  7. dustballs
  8. dustbath
  9. dustbathe
  10. dustbathed
  11. dustbathes

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