Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old game played by two or more persons with a ball, bat, and trap (see trap, n., 5). By striking the end of the pivoted trap with the bat, the ball is driven some distance. The side or players out retire the striker by catching the batted ball on the fly or by bowling it to the trap from the place where it falls.
- n. The ball used in the game of trap-ball.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A game in which a batsman makes a ball hit a trap (device) that sends the ball into the air, from where the batsman has to hit it again
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th trap, 4.
Etymologies
- trap + ball (Wiktionary)
Examples
“- personal matters, gossip, and so forth - and that he never got any thing but what was played like a trapball all over town; but, in this case, as a mere matter of speculation, he confessed he did feel desirous of unravelling the riddle; in fact, it preyed on his mind; he couldn't rest last night; he”
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
“Stoolball, knurr-and-spell, trapball, ninepins, handbasll, bowls and football were all customary pastimes of the Easter holidays. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trapball’.
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It's a trap
trap, gin, snare, deadfall, trapezium, trapezoid, trappist, venus flytrap, foothold trap, trapping pit, glue trap, trap set and 98 more...
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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hernesheir Older examples of are written trap-ball, with a hyphen.
This old English ball game was also called nipsy or knur and spell. Sep 23, 2011