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stoolball

stoolball is the alternative form 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 stoolball

What is stoolball the alternative form of?
Stoolball is the alternative form of stool-ball.

Words near stoolball in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoolball (page history and authors); stool-ball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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