单词 | to play at ball |
释义 | > as lemmasto play at (the) ball b. A game played with a ball (esp. thrown or pitched with the hand); spec. (U.S.) baseball. Chiefly in phrase to play ball (formerly also to play at (the) ball). In quot. ?1834: an annual handball contest, played on a holiday in towns and villages on the Scottish Border. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] ball play?c1225 ballc1300 goalball1834 baseball1845 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > handball, etc. > [noun] > handball > as played in Border towns ball?1834 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] roundball1834 hardball1857 ball1868 inside baseball1897 c1300 St. Cuthbert (Laud) l. 4 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 359 With ȝounge children he pleide atþe bal [a1325 Corpus Cambr. atte balle] þat is felawes were. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 336 (MED) Bal and bares and suche play, Out of chyrcheȝeorde put a-way. 1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Oiiij And let him learne to daunce, to shoote, and play at ball, And any other sporte, but put him to his booke withall. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 68 After dinner all the youthes goe into the fieldes, to play at the ball. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 101 Medowes where they played at the ball, the long-tennis, and at the Piletrigone. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 50 To play at Cat, at Trap, or Ball. 1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 336 Their [sc. the Indians'] manner of playing Ball is after this manner. 1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville I. 62 I am just come from playing at ball in the garden. ?1834 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 2. 45 (heading) The game of Ball as played in Dunse on Fastern's Eve. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 57 Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? 1868 H. Chadwick Game of Baseball 162 The National Game of ball of Americans. 1896 R. G. Knowles & M. Morton Baseball 71 He saw ball played by the American Students. 1944 College Topics (Univ. Virginia) 30 Mar. 3 Hank neighbors, who pitched two innings of college ball here last year. 2001 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 71 339 That student recalled that the teacher played ball with them. < as lemmas |
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