stoolball
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See also: stool-ball
English
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]stoolball (uncountable )
- Alternative form of stool-ball .
- 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:
- Nausicaa / With other virgins did at stoolball play.
- The spelling has been modernized.
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