† stow-balln.

Forms: Also 1600s stopball, stoball, stob-ball, stobball.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. Commonly identified with stool-ball n.; 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.¹, denoting the club or ‘staff’.

Obsolete.

a. An outdoor ball-game commonly played in the 16–17th centuries (see quots.). Also attributive.

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1634 Abp. Laud's Visit. in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) App. 144/1 This whole churchyard is made a receptacle for all ydle persons to spend their time in stopball, and such lyke recreacions.

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 10 The large and levell playnes..in the vale of this hundred..doe witnes the inbred delight, that both gentry, yeomanry, rascallity, boyes and children, doe take in a game called Stoball... And not a sonne of mine, but at 7. was furnished with his double stoball staves, and a gamster therafter.

1679 Locke in Ld. King Life (1830) I. 248 The sports of England, which, perhaps, a curious stranger would be glad to see, are..shooting in the long-bow and stob-ball, in Tothill Fields.

1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. vii. 463 The Citizens and Peasants have..Skittles or Nine-pins, Shovel-board, Stow-ball, Goffe, [etc.].

a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) ii. xv. 117 Stobball-play is peculiar to North Wilts, North Gloucestershire, and a little part of Somerset near Bath. They smite a ball, stuffed very hard with quills and covered with soale leather, with a staffe, commonly made of withy, about 3 [feet] and a halfe long... A stobball-ball is of about four inches diameter, and as hard as a stone.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 82 A pastime called Stow-ball is frequently mentioned by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which, I presume, was a species of goff, at least it appears to have been played with the same kind of ball.

1907 F. W. Hackwood Old Eng. Sports 144 In the English modification of Goff, the club employed was not unlike the bandy-stick... In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this game was also known as Stow-ball.

b. A ball used in this game.

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1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Paganica,..a goff-ball, a stow-ball, stuffed with feathers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	stow-ball
释义	† stow-balln. Forms: Also 1600s stopball, stoball, stob-ball, stobball. Etymology: Of obscure origin. Commonly identified with stool-ball n.; 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.¹, denoting the club or ‘staff’. Obsolete. a. An outdoor ball-game commonly played in the 16–17th centuries (see quots.). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [noun] > stow-ball stow-ball1634 1634 Abp. Laud's Visit. in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) App. 144/1 This whole churchyard is made a receptacle for all ydle persons to spend their time in stopball, and such lyke recreacions. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 10 The large and levell playnes..in the vale of this hundred..doe witnes the inbred delight, that both gentry, yeomanry, rascallity, boyes and children, doe take in a game called Stoball... And not a sonne of mine, but at 7. was furnished with his double stoball staves, and a gamster therafter. 1679 Locke in Ld. King Life (1830) I. 248 The sports of England, which, perhaps, a curious stranger would be glad to see, are..shooting in the long-bow and stob-ball, in Tothill Fields. 1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. vii. 463 The Citizens and Peasants have..Skittles or Nine-pins, Shovel-board, Stow-ball, Goffe, [etc.]. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) ii. xv. 117 Stobball-play is peculiar to North Wilts, North Gloucestershire, and a little part of Somerset near Bath. They smite a ball, stuffed very hard with quills and covered with soale leather, with a staffe, commonly made of withy, about 3 [feet] and a halfe long... A stobball-ball is of about four inches diameter, and as hard as a stone. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 82 A pastime called Stow-ball is frequently mentioned by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which, I presume, was a species of goff, at least it appears to have been played with the same kind of ball. 1907 F. W. Hackwood Old Eng. Sports 144 In the English modification of Goff, the club employed was not unlike the bandy-stick... In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this game was also known as Stow-ball. b. A ball used in this game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > forms of golf > [noun] > stow-ball > ball used in stow-ball stow-ball1678 1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Paganica,..a goff-ball, a stow-ball, stuffed with feathers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1634
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