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Definition of Golf ball
1. Noun. A small hard ball used in playing golf; dimpled to reduce wind resistance.
Definition of Golf ball
1. Noun. A small, usually white ball that is designed for use in the game of golf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golf Ball
Literary usage of Golf ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"... Case of a golf ball. It has been supposed that the deviation of an elongated
projectile fired from a rifled gun might be accounted for on a theory like ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"But there could be no question of difficulty in the golf ball. It all "looked
and yet was so exasperatingly For golf differs in one respect from every other ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society by American Mathematical Society (1919)
"Many other experiments have been made since this time and in his beautiful lecture
on| "The dynamics of a golf ball" Sir Joseph Thomson showed with the aid ..."
4. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"... what he must try to get out of doing—with the golf ball. The cricketer, too,
does not swing his bat away back from the block-hole as he lifts it. ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"Men are at work with all sorts of weird machines for trying to find out what they
call the " physics " of the golf ball's flight —why it stays so long in ..."