stoolball

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A form of stool-ball — An old country game, similar in some respects to cricket and rounders, and chiefly played by young men or women at Eastertide.

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Meanings

nounstoolball (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of stool-ball.

    Nausicaa / With other virgins did at stoolball play.

    1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tutball
Cite this entry
APA

stoolball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoolball

MLA

“stoolball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoolball. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stoolball,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stoolball.

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