单词 | ball player |
释义 | > as lemmasball player C1. attributive and objective in sense 2a: ‘of or relating to a ball or ball game’, ‘used in or for a ball game’, as ball-alley, ball control, ball field, ball ground, ball player, ball-playing, ball skill, ball team, etc.Earliest in ball play n., ball green n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player ball player1440 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play ball greenc1260 ball ground1440 ball court1671 spheristerion1764 Hong Kong1863 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > skill ball control1440 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > playing ball-playing1440 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] ball player1440 baseball player1856 baseballist1866 baseballer1867 hardballer1930 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] ball field1440 park1867 ballpark1871 baseball diamond1871 diamond1875 ballyard1897 orchard1913 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > ninepins or ten-pins > [noun] > alley ball-alley1440 alley1541 bowling-alley1555 bowl-alley1628 ninepin yard1665 ninepin alley1682 ten-pin alley1835 lane1960 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > team ball team1440 field1868 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 22 Balpleyere, Pililudius, lipidulus, ludipilus. 1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 15 As ball-players with the Ball. When the Ball is once vp, they labour to keepe it vp. 1698 M. Henry Acct. Life P. Henry iii. 31 I have neither heard of their being in the Ale-house on our Lords Day, nor Ball-playing that day. 1708 E. Hatton New View London I. 4/2 Ball Alley, a Passage from Wheelers Str. (Spittlefields) to Pye Corner there.] 1772 D. Taitt in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 546 [I] then went to a Ball ground..where the Eutchie and Geehaw people were playing Ball. 1799 C. Ludger tr. A. Kotzebue Peevish Man ii. iii. 32 (stage direct.) The two old men begin to mimic ball-playing. 1802 A. Ellicott Jrnl. (1803) 291 A convenient ball-alley was prepared. 1827 T. L. McKenney Sketches Tour to Lakes 181 The little naked Indian boys..were..playing ball...This ball-playing is not unlike our game of bandy. 1837 J. D. Whitney in E. T. Brewster Life & Lett. J. D. W. (1909) 20 For my part, I could never make a ball player. 1856 Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 245/1 The Club presented their President with an elegant silver Pitcher, with a view of the ball ground carved out upon it. 1865 Englishman's Mag. Oct. 313 Ball-alleys and racquet-courts were the exception. 1867 Ball Players' Chron. 13 June 4/2 Let us train up assemblages to good behavior on ball-fields. 1888 Outing July 356/1 The personnel of the average professional ball team..has improved. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 368 The training of their young mean consisted of..War, hunting, and ball-playing. 1905 Washington Post 25 June 4/1 Grouches against the umpire on the ball field must be overlooked. 1910 Daily Mail in B. James Eng. v Scotl. (1969) iv. 98 [Templeton showed] uncanny ball control. 1928 Sunday Disp. 2 Sept. 1/1 Clever ball control is returning to our football enclosures. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 17 At Exeter he was head of his class and captain of the ballteam. 1947 Redbk. Oct. 100/2 Two of his uncles were bush-league ballplayers. 1948 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 26 Mar. 3/2 Grade one displayed the ball skills which include bouncing, passing, and roll-passing the ball in time to music. 1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 910 Several ethnologists..see the origin of ball-playing in magical rites. 1979 Washington Post 21 Mar. d4/1 Askew..possesses excellent ball skills and the physical size that scorers need to take the punishment from defenders. 2007 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 23 Apr. d1 A new ball field will be better and safer for kids. < as lemmas |
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