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stool-balls

stool-balls is the plural of stool-ball.

Meaning of stool-ball

Noun

stool-ball (countable and uncountable, plural stool-balls)

  1. An old country game, similar in some respects to cricket and rounders, and chiefly played by young men or women at Eastertide.
  2. A ball used in the game of stool-ball.

Questions about stool-balls

What is stool-balls the plural of?
Stool-balls is the plural of stool-ball.

Words near stool-balls in the dictionary

  1. stool pigeon
  2. stool pigeons
  3. stool softener
  4. stool softeners
  5. stool-ball
  6. stool-balls
  7. stoolball
  8. stoole
  9. stooled
  10. stooles
  11. stoolie

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