Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballating
Literary usage of Ballating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and by Peter Force (1844)
"... chiefe Justice, and Treasurer, shall be chosen here by ballating in a Quarter-
Court. ... vnlesse the Court desire to haue it passe by ballating. ..."
2. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution by New York (State)., Charles Zebina Lincoln, William H. Johnson, Ansel Judd Northrup (1894)
"... Wares, and Merchandize by way of Lottery, Raffling, ballating and Voluntary
Subscribtion, or otherways, that Determines and alters the Property of Goods ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"... or " put to the ballating box." Balls were used in balloting. See Abstract of
Proceedings of the Virginia Company of London, ed. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"When I remember this, and see that now The country gentlemen begin to allow My
wit for dry bobs, then I needs must cry, ' I see my days of ballating grow ..."
5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1896)
"... and in the Assembly it self upon all questions, y* decision shall be by
ballating as in Venice; only in y* Councell it shall be by subscription, ..."
6. The Popular Ballad by Francis Barton Gummere (1907)
"Nobody can uphold even the probability that Deloney, the "ballating silk-weaver,"
as Nashe called him, whose undoubted work lies before us in much doggerel ..."
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