dustballs
dustballs is the plural of dustball.
Meaning of dustball
Noun
dustball (plural dustballs)
- A ball of dust.
- 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
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- Dustballs is the plural of dustball.
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