Thistleball

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spherical thistle. countable
  2. 2
    Thistledown. nonce-word, uncountable

    "We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball"

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"We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball"

Etymology

From thistle + ball.

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