an old ball game in which a ball is placed in a seesaw device called a trap, flicked up by a batsman hitting one end of the trap, and then hit with a bat
trapball in American English
(ˈtræpˌbɔl)
noun
1.
an old game in which a ball placed on the hollowed end of a trap is thrown into the air by striking the other end of the trap with a bat and then driven to a distance with the bat
2.
the ball used in this game
Word origin
[1650–60; trap1 + ball1]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burlesque, cardholder, oscillation, syllabus, triplet