soot ball

plural soot balls

1. alternativeAlternative form of sootball.

   Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.

   2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128

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   He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.

   1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35

   When enough collects, the stove is starved for oxygen and the flame goes out in a spawn of tiny, velvety, soot balls from every crack.

   2016 -, Alexandra Morton, Billy Proctor, Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story, →ISBN, page 102