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Definition of Ball game
1. Noun. A field game played with a ball (especially baseball).
Generic synonyms: Field Game
Specialized synonyms: Baseball, Baseball Game
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Examples of category: Close
Definition of Ball game
1. Noun. Any game played with a ball. ¹
2. Noun. A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball Game
Literary usage of Ball game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (1904)
"Chapter V National Games — Betting — ball game — Game of Javelins — Game of Deer
Buttons — Snow Snake Game — Snow Boat Game — Archery — Peach-Stone Game ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The four-ball game, the original form of American billiard practically obsolete.
It was formerly played on an English pocket table, with a dark-red and a ..."
3. Training the Boy by William Arch McKeever (1913)
"Now this midweek ball game, rightly managed, represents an ideal method of getting
good work out of a boy — of making him fond of his industrial ..."
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