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ˈpize-ball local.
Also piseball, pizeball.
[f. pize v. + ball n.1 4.]
A game similar to rounders in which the ball is hit with the flat of the hand. (See also quot. 1883.)
Played mainly in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
1796,1862[see pize v.]. 1883A. Easther Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 102 Pizeball.., a ball which children play with, formerly stuffed with sawdust, etc... It was often partly coloured and ornamented; now it is sometimes of india-rubber and hollow. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy ii. 58 ‘Piseball’, ‘tig’,..and a great number of games involving running round the lamp-posts or in and out of the closet-areas..are still popular. 1968Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (Lit. & Hist. Section) XIII. ii. 55 Pize-ball is a game which, in many ways, resembles the well-known games, Rounders and Baseball. |