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Definition of Pushball
1. Noun. A game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal.
Definition of Pushball
1. Noun. (context: games uncountable) A team game where players attempt to push a large inflatable lightweight ball into the opponent's goal. ¹
2. Noun. The large ball used for this game. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pushball
1. a type of ball game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pushball
Literary usage of Pushball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ninety-first, the First at Camp Lewis by Alice Palmer Henderson (1918)
"He had nothing to put into it, but the salesman had told him that "that there
trunk would bear being thrown from a pushball ..."
2. The Technical World Magazine (1912)
"If someone could invent a pushball that could be made at a reasonable cost ...
The enormous cost of the pushball has made it possible for only a very few to ..."
3. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"pushball. — The game of pushball is played with the largest ball ever constructed
for any game. The ball measures 6 feet in diameter, and consists of an ..."
4. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"pushball. —The game of pushball is played with the largest ball ever constructed
for any game. The ball measures 6 feet in diameter, and consists of an ..."
5. University of Illinois Directory: Listing the 35,000 Persons who Have Ever by Vergil Vivian Phelps (1916)
"Council abolished pushball contest between Freshmen and Sophomores. ... Sack rush
voted to succeed pushball. October 21—Vahlen and Aaron German libraries ..."
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