Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outdoor game of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, generally played by women alone, but sometimes in company with men. See second quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An old English sport resembling
cricket .
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Examples
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They might have played stoolball, an old English sport that's similar to cricket, played with a ball and bat.
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In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Ten years ago scriptwriter Valerie Chidson was studying some local history photographs-that included one of the village stoolball team (stoolball is said to be a forerunner of cricket).
Home | Mail Online 2009
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