Ball

a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

a ball of wool; a ball of twine

[…] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]

I gave each of them a Musket with a Firelock on it, and about eight Charges of Powder and Ball, charging them to be very good Husbands of both, and not to use either of them but upon urgent Occasion.

[…] some headstrong Maroons were using a soldier of Captain Craskell’s ill, and compelling him to write to his commander, that it was too late to do any thing good, and that they wanted nothing, having got plenty of powder and ball […]

This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.

the ball of the thumb

c. 1712', Joseph Addison, Ode to the Creator of the World What, though in solemn Silence, all / Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!

Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball, / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

The children were playing ball on the beach.

George played his college ball at Stanford.

If you get to a million points, you get another ball.

After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno—Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut—nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.

Shetland increased the lead in the 22nd minute when Kirkness shot first time from a ball that was fired into the area from outside the 25-metre line.

Mark Wright sent a speculative ball for me to chase after and I found myself leaving Tony Adams in my wake, with only Seaman to beat.

Hitler has only got one ball, / Göring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim'lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

That’s a load of balls, and you know it!

I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.

The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.

I'ma let these niggas have it, go on stage and throw a forty ball

Forty ball all in these leather jeans Diamonds studs, I make a bum nigga think twice

Forty ball on my wrist, nigga, I cashed out on it (Damn) Forty bands on my neck, nigga, I maxed out on it (Damn)

Dropped a twenty ball in Gallery Department

to ball cotton

Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’”

Jefferson Fuck Poland wrote of three other anti-free-sex influences: […]heroin use (“Junkies rarely ball, unless for cash to buy junk. Heroin provides an orgasmic feeling of its own while suppressing sexual desire”); […].

the horse balls

the snow balls

This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).

All of these things are done by pledges in hopes of not getting 'balled' or kicked out.

fuck it, we ball

any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.

Near-synonym: haul ass

Hang back for a bit — that Peterbilt in the left lane is really ballin’ and I'd rather not be real close to him.

A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick.

We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.

I had a ball at that concert.