Meanings
nounjack-ball (plural jack-balls)
plural jack-balls
- A ball used in boules.
Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
Translations
Catalan bolig, petit
- boligball used in boules
- petitball used in boules
French cochonnet
- cochonnetball used in boules
German Zielkugel, Schweinchen
- Zielkugelball used in boules
- Schweinchenball used in boules
- Sauball used in boules
Italian boccino, pallino
- boccinoball used in boules
- pallinoball used in boules
Māori hai
- haiball used in boules
Spanish balín, boliche
- balínball used in boules
- bolicheball used in boules
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