pize-balln.

a1796 S. Pegge Two Coll. Derbicisms (1896) 54 To pize a ball, to strike it with the hand; so the game is call'd pize-ball.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 385 The game of ‘Pize-ball’, in which the ‘pizer’ ‘pizes’ the ball to a member in succession.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 102 Pizeball.., a ball which children play with, formerly stuffed with sawdust, etc... It was often partly coloured and ornamented; now it is sometimes of india-rubber and hollow.

1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 168 Pize-ball, a well-known outdoor game at ball, not at all confined to children. There may be three or four ‘hobs’ or stopping places, but the rule is ‘no double-hob’ i.e. only one person at a time is allowed at a ‘hob’.

1951 Times 28 July 7/4 In the St. George's Cricket Club of New York, around 1840, there were cricket members of the Wright family who had arrived from England carrying North Country memories of ‘pise’ ball (‘rounders’ to others).

1968 Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (Lit. & Hist. Section) 13 ii. 55 Pize-ball is a game which, in many ways, resembles the well-known games, Rounders and Baseball.