net-ball

A form of netball — A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.

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Meanings

nounnet-ball (countable and uncountable, plural net-balls)

plural net-balls

  1. countabledateduncountableDated form of netball.

    Some excellent photographs are taken of [...] members of the athletic club, "net-ball," "foot-ball," etc., [...]

    1913 January 15, “Personal and Official”, in C. W. Hastings, editor, The Gas Engineer’s Magazine and Gas Industries, volume XXIX, number 441, London: J. G. Hammond & Co., →OCLC, page 13, column 2
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    In addition to the above prominent clubs, there are a number of cricket, tennis, net-ball, and football clubs in the Colony.

    1946–1947, “[Windward Islands.] St. Lucia.”, in The West Indies Year Book: […], London: Thomas Skinner & Co., →OCLC, page 389, column 2
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APA

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Chicago

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