| 单词 | tut-ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmastut-ball 1. Each of a number of objects set up as ‘bases’ in rounders or similar games; also (in plural), a kind of stool-ball in which the player at each base must move to the next base each time the ball is struck; also called tut-ball; also the game of rounders. local. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > stoolball > [noun] stool-balla1475 tut1519 grinstool ball1579 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] > base tut1519 base1848 1519 in J. Raine Priory of Hexham (1865) II. 157 Ludi inhonesti, prout pili-ludus pedalis, et manualis, viz. tuttes, et handballac Pennyston. 1575 G. Gascoigne Fruites of Warre xciv, in Posies sig. Iiii Yet haue I shot at maister Bellums butte, And throwen his ball although I toucht no tutte: I haue percase as deeply dealt the dole, As he that hit the marke and gat the gole. 1655 J. Clarke Phraseologia Puerilis (ed. 3) 141 The Game of 1. Stoole-ball. Signa terminum testula... Make the tuts. 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 443 [Devon] Tut,—Lusus puerilis—A Sort of Stool Ball much practised about the Easter Holidays, particularly at Exeter. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Tut-ball,..a very ancient game,..elsewhere called stool-ball. 1883 G. F. Jackson & C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore I. xxiii. 524 Tut-ball... One of the players in the den..hit back the ball with the palm of the hand, and immediately ran to one of three brick-bats, called ‘tuts’—which were set up at equal distances. < as lemmas |
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