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Definition of Lacrosse ball
1. Noun. Ball used in playing lacrosse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacrosse Ball
Literary usage of Lacrosse ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The tennis ball is of rubber covered with white flannel, about 2y* inches in
diameter and 2 ounces in weight. The lacrosse ball is made of india-rubber and ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The present regulation lacrosse ball is much used. 6. The goals shall be in the
centre of the goal lines, and consist of two uprights or goal posts twelve ..."
3. Stevens Indicator by Stevens Institute of Technology (1884)
"4 in.; throwing lacrosse ball, W. Carroll, '84, 255 ft. n in.; tug of war, won
by '85. The motion which was made at the last Athletic Association meeting to ..."
4. Modern Lawn Tennis by Pembroke Arnold Vaile (1907)
"... and is there caught by the wood at least every other stroke, and then flung
across the net much as a lacrosse ball is delivered in play. ..."
5. Switzerland: The Country and Its People by Clarence Rook (1907)
"Red is the colour of the ball, and in size it is like the regulation lacrosse ball.
You cannot see a finer exhibition of this game, in Europe, ..."
6. The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909 (1910)
"Football ;—Lacrosse. Ball and the cross. Chesterton, GK t$i-5O. Lane. BALL FAMILY.
See Genealogies, Deas, AS BALI.AHS. Cameron, C. Stories of the ballads. ..."
7. Outing (1893)
"... are very pleasing as the gayly costumed players pass and repass the "puck "
from end to end of the rink with the speed and accuracy of a lacrosse ball. ..."
8. Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths by Jeremiah Curtin, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (1918)
"The chief told his people that the strangers challenged them to a game of lacrosse
ball and that there were to be two players on a side. ..."
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