| 单词 | camp-ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmascamp-ball 2. More fully camp-ball. An ancient form of football in which large numbers engaged on both sides. See camp v.1 3, and camping n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > other forms of football > [noun] > ancient campa1640 a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. I4v I am one Tom Strowd of Harling, I'll play a gole at Camp ball. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Camp, an ancient athletic game of ball formerly in vogue in the Eastern Counties. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 8 I have heard old persons speak of a celebrated camping, Norfolk against Suffolk, on Diss Common, with 300 on each side... The Suffolk men, after 14 hours, were the victors. Nine deaths were the result of the contest, within a fortnight! These were called fighting camps: for much boxing was practised in them. 1887 Illustr. London News 26 Feb. /1 The game in very ancient times was not so properly called football as camp-ball. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 236 Camp-ball..used to be a very favourite game in my parish some fifty years ago, and it was, by all accounts, a very rough one—something like football. < as lemmas |
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