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Definition of Feather ball
1. Noun. A low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines; northeastern Mexico.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feather Ball
Literary usage of Feather ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life by Bertha von Suttner (1910)
"... 1848 • Landgrave Fursten- berg • The feather ball • Castle Matzen WHAT gives
me some justification for publishing my experiences is the fact that I have ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"... of the gutta-percha variety. of Golf and Criticism Mr. Horace Hutchinson speaks
of the feather ball as " obsolete as the flint arrow-head," but it is ..."
3. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"This is, however, quite matter of history, and about the feather ball there is
no need for us ... The feather ball was superseded by the gutta-percha ball. ..."
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