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stool-ball
ˈstool-ball [f. stool n. + ball n. The ‘stool’ was the wicket (see stool n. 2 d); perh. it was originally an ordinary stool.] 1. An old country game somewhat resembling cricket, played chiefly by young women or, as an Easter game, between young men and women for a ‘tansy’ (tansy 3) as the stake. Sti... Oxford English Dictionary
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stoil-ball
stoil-ball obs. form of stool-ball. Oxford English Dictionary
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A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
Description The book includes a woodcut of stool-ball among other period games, and includes a rhyme entitled "Base-Ball." wikipedia.org
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stow-ball
† stow-ball Obs. Also 7 stopball, stoball, stob-ball, stobball. [Of obscure origin. Commonly identified with stool-ball; but the games appear to have been very dissimilar, and the corruption of stool-ball into stoball, stobball seems hardly probable. Possibly the first element may be stob n., denoti... Oxford English Dictionary
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Baseball Before We Knew It
"Stool-ball", an earlier sport, may have been even more influential in the evolution of baseball, and is also a likely parent of cricket, which developed wikipedia.org
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grinstool ball
† grinstool ball Obs. ? = stool-ball.1579 J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. xi. 23 Other exercises, as riding, running easily at Bace, at grinstole ball, boules, riding on horseback..I wil omitte. Oxford English Dictionary
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Origins of baseball
There were also games (e.g. stool-ball, trap-ball) which involved no running at all. Along with its relatives stool-ball and the cat games it crossed the ocean with English colonists, and eventually followed its own independent evolutionary wikipedia.org
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tomboy
tomboy (ˈtɒmbɔɪ) [f. Tom n.1 + boy n.] † 1. A rude, boisterous, or forward boy. Obs. (Generally so taken in quot. a 1553; certainly so in 1599.)a 1553 Udall Royster D. ii. iv. (Arb.) 37 Is all your delite and ioy In whiskyng and ramping abroade like a Tom boy? 1599 Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, M... Oxford English Dictionary
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cricket
▪ I. cricket, n.1 (ˈkrɪkɪt) Forms: 4–5 cri-, cryket(te, -at, crekytt, 5–6 creket(te, 7 kricket, crecket, 6– cricket. [a. OF. criquet, crequet (Marie de France, 12th c.) cicada, cricket, related to criquer ‘to creake, rattle, crackle’ (Cotgr.), and to MDu. crekel, Du. and LG. krekel cricket; all deri... Oxford English Dictionary
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mumchance
▪ I. mumchance, n. and a. (ˈmʌmtʃɑːns, -æ-) Forms: 6 mom(me)cha(u)nce, mumchaunce, Sc. mwmschance, 6–7 mumschance, 7 mummechaunce, 6– mumchance. [a. MLG. mummenschanze, -kanze a certain game of dice, also, a masked serenade (= MDu. mommecanse, mod.G. mummen-, mummschanz), f. mummen mum v. + schanz a... Oxford English Dictionary
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stool
▪ I. stool, n. (stuːl) Forms: 1 stool, 1–2 stól, 3–4 stol, 4 stule, 4–7 stole (also 9 in sense 13), stoole, 5 stoll, 5–6 stolle, 6, 8 stoul, (6 stoule, -lle, stoale, stowle, stoel, north. stoile), 6–7 stowell, (stowll), 5– stool; Sc. 4–6 stule, 6 stuill, -yll, stwyll, stul(l, stwle, 7 stuile. [Com. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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tut
▪ I. tut, n.1 (tʌt) Also 6, 8 tutt, 7 tit, toyte, 8–9 toit. [There is perh. more than one word here. Of the origin nothing has been ascertained.] 1. Each of a number of objects set up as ‘bases’ in rounders or similar games; also (in pl.), a kind of stool-ball in which the player at each base must m... Oxford English Dictionary
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fatherhood
fatherhood (ˈfɑːðəhʊd) also † fatherhead. Forms: α. 4–5 fader-, -ir-, -ur-, -yr-, -hed(e, -heed, 5 fatherhed(e, 6 (fathered), Sc. fatherheid, 6–7 fatherhead. β. 5 fader-, -ir-, -hode, -hood, (fathyrod), 6 fatherhode, -hoode, 6– fatherhood. [f. father n. + -hood, -head.] 1. a. The attribute of being ... Oxford English Dictionary
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trap
▪ I. trap, n.1 (træp) Forms: 1 treppe, træppe, 3–5, 7 trapp, 4–6 trappe, 4– trap. [Late (and rare) OE. treppe, træppe (in coltetræppe), ME. trappe, trapp, agrees in form and sense with rare MDu. trappe trap, gin, snare, mod.WFlem. traap, trape (De Bo), in Kilian, 1599, ‘trappe (old word) mouse-trap,... Oxford English Dictionary
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cat
▪ I. cat, n.1 (kæt) Forms: 1 catte, catt, 2–7 catt, 4–6 catte, (3–7 kat, 6 katte), 1– cat. [The ME. and mod. cat corresponds at once to OE. cat and ONF. cat. The name is common European of unknown origin: found in Lat. and Gr. in 1–4th c., and in the modern langs. generally, as far back as their rec... Oxford English Dictionary
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