Definition of ball

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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..

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Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.
Unballasted :: Unballasted (a.) Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..
Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..
Snick :: Snick (n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional..
Squeezer :: Squeezer (n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural..
Water Ballast :: Water ballast () Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast..
Pellet :: Pellet (v./.) To form into small balls.
Ball :: 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..
Balloting :: Balloting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballo.
Ballasting :: Ballasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballas.
Keno :: Keno (n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered..
Choroid :: Choroid (a.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball..
Ballastage :: Ballastage (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
Polo :: Polo (n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback..
Lot :: Lot (n.) Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots..
Unwind :: Unwind (v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn..
Bye :: Bye (n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye..
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