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Definition of Ball carrier
1. Noun. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play.
Category relationships: Football, Football Game
Generic synonyms: Football Player, Footballer
Specialized synonyms: Forward Passer, Passer, Rusher
Definition of Ball carrier
1. Noun. (American football Canadian football rugby) A player who carries the football. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball Carrier
Literary usage of Ball carrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Sun-symbolism, also, seems to underlie the tale of Ball-Carrier,18 the boy who
was lured ... Ball-Carrier, who is a kind of Indian Jack the Giant-Killer, ..."
2. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"Sun-symbolism, also, seems to underlie the tale of Ball-Carrier,13 the boy who
was lured ... Ball-Carrier, who is a kind of Indian Jack the Giant-Killer, ..."
3. Swimming and Watermanship by Louis de B. Handley (1922)
"... or the goal- tender will leave his post to engage the ball carrier, who can
then pass to his fellow forward as the latter approaches the board and offer ..."
4. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"Ball-carrier and the Bad One. Lang. Aladdin and other stories. Lang. Brown fairy
book. Ball of thread. Gregory. Kiltartan wonder book. Balloon boy. ..."
5. Magnetism and Electricity by Frederick Guthrie (1876)
"Gradually discharge Positively and Negatively charged Jars by Pith ball carrier.—Place
knobs of jars 5 or 6 inches apart, suspend insulated pith ball ..."
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