| 单词 | one-old-cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone-old-cat one-old-cat n. U.S. a form of baseball in which a batter scores by running from home base to the single other base and back again, and is succeeded as batter by the player who puts him or her out. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] baseball1748 pat-ball1775 town ball1813 stickball1824 rounders1828 roundball1834 feeder1844 one-old-cat1856 softball1867 one-eyed cat1908 vigoroc1930 slow-pitch1934 fast-pitch1939 stoop ball1941 fastball1943 lob ball1949 whiffle-ball1954 Wiffle ball1955 T-ball1962 1850 Knickerbocker 35 84 [We] never engaged in a game of chance of any sort in the world, save the ‘bassball’, ‘one’ and ‘two hole cat’..of our boyhood.] 1856 R. Jonathan Barlow Knife 90 Just then two of his play-mates coming along with a ball, Dick..went to join them in a game of ‘one-old-cat’. 1929 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Mar. 10/3 Supervised play has taken the place of ‘one old cat’, and hockey has replaced shinney. 1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus iii. 51 Spalding had vociferously advocated a purely American origin, citing the colonial game of ‘one old cat’ as a distant precursor. < as lemmas |
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