| 单词 | barn-ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarn-ball barn-ball n. a children's game of the United States (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > children's ball games > [noun] catchball1631 hop-ball1811 Anthony over1838 barn-ball1841 bull-pen1857 sevens1864 catch1887 pig in the middle1887 alairy1916 monkey in the middle1952 kingy1959 piggy in the middle1967 dandy shandy1978 1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 25 May 2/2 Who has not played ‘barn ball’ in his boyhood? 1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory 122 The writer knew a boy..who never got farther than ‘barn-ball’, which means throwing a ball at the gable and catching it when it returns. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis ix. 196 A tall man in his shirt sleeves was playing barn-ball with some boys. < as lemmas |
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