Crossword-Solution: BALL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ball | n. | Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
| Ball | n. | A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. |
| Ball | n. | A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. |
| Ball | n. | Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets. |
| Ball | n. | A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball. |
| Ball | n. | A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. |
| Ball | n. | A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. |
| Ball | n. | A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. |
| Ball | n. | The globe or earth. |
| Ball | v. i. | To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls. |
| Ball | v. t. | To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. |
| Ball | v. t. | To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
| Ball | n. | A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BALL (5)
Skilled was he in sports and pastimes, In the merry dance of snow-shoes, In the play of quoits and ball-play; Skilled was he in games of hazard, In all games of skill and hazard, Pugasaing, the Bowl and Counters, Kuntassoo, the Game of Plum-stones.
But by far the larger part engaged in such sports and merriments as playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was by far the most agreeable to the feelings of our masters.
She took up one of the birds, a rumpled ball of feathers with the blood dripping slowly from its mouth, and looked at the live color that still burned on its plumage.
Who can he have?” “Young Cain Ball is a very good lad,” Henery said, “and Shepherd Oak don’t mind his youth?” he added, turning with an apologetic smile to the shepherd, who had just appeared on the scene, and was now leaning against the doorpost with his arms folded.
When the steel ball on the mouse had picked up enough {cruft} to be unreliable, the mouse was doused in cleaner, which restored it for a while.
Quotes with BALL (3)
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Pe…
When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head,” he continued. “Your haircut is really, really bad, I’m probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I’m dying to fuck you.” He glanced at her. “That honest enough for you?
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 307 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).