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Definition of Cricket ball
1. Noun. The ball used in playing cricket.
Definition of Cricket ball
1. Noun. A hard, solid ball with an interior of cork and a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. Traditionally red, but other colors are available. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricket Ball
Literary usage of Cricket ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1879)
"... Killed by a cricket ball, near Ma: tign\, 1 » 5 rf Yac ht Capsized at Pointe
abx Tremble» and Mrs. Wii.-ht, Thrown from her Carriage, Eight Tenons ..."
2. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments by Addison (1797)
"... and a fox-chace or a cricket-ball; a hunting-match or a dice-box, are not only
able to ... cricketball ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... makes the latter say, "Would my eyes had been beut out of my head with a
cricket ball. ' The second occurs in the diary of the Rev. ..."
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