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Definition of Boxball
1. Noun. Any of various informal ball games or sports played with boxes, or in a box-shaped court. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boxball
1. a form of handball [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxball
Literary usage of Boxball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Titanic" Disaster: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on by William Alden Smith, Isidor Rayner (1912)
"Mr. boxball got away from the ship and we stopped for a time. Several times we
stop|>ed rowing to listen for the lapping of the water against the icebergs. ..."
2. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia by Georgia (1918)
"... etc. corporation operating for gain a bowling, boxball, ten-pin alley, or any
alley of like character, for public play, $25.00. ..."
3. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed by Kentucky (1906)
"To the keeper of a nine pin or ten pin or bowling or boxball alley or other
similar contrivance for the use of which a price is charged, fifteen dollars, ..."
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