sootball
sootball noun: a ball of soot or ash.
Noun
sootball (plural sootballs)
- A ball of soot or ash.
- If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany
- The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39
Examples of sootball in a sentence
- In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21:
- Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, →ISBN, page 87:
- She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three, →ISBN:
Forms of sootball
| plural | sootballs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | soot-ball |
| alternative form | soot ball |
Origin of sootball
From soot + ball.
Questions about sootball
- What does sootball mean?
- Sootball means a ball of soot or ash.
- How do you use sootball in a sentence?
- In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.
- What part of speech is sootball?
- Sootball is a noun.
- What is the plural of sootball?
- The plural of sootball is sootballs.
Words near sootball in the dictionary
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