| 单词 | ball maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasball maker ball maker n. a person who makes balls, in various senses; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 141 The Balls were puft with wind, in fashion like Mens heads, which the Ball-maker had filled with blasts..making them as hollow as empty. 1761 in R. Clark Golf: Royal & Anc. Game (1893) 45 Ball-maker to the Honorable Society of Golfers. 1875 S. W. Baker Eight Years' Wanderings Ceylon viii. 178 The mason-fly is also a ball-maker. 1905 Newport (Rhode Island) 22 Apr. 6/3 The opium is now made into balls... The natives wade about in the large vats containing the paste like drug and hand it out to hundreds of ballmakers. 2007 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 8 Feb. (State & Metro ed.) (Business section) 1 e The thinking in the industry has been that four major ball makers were too many. < as lemmas |
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