BALLED
Verb
balled
simple past tense and past participle of ball
Adjective
balled (not comparable)
(in combination) Having a specified kind or number of balls.
Anagrams
• da bell, deball
Source: Wiktionary
BALL
Ball, n. Etym: [OE. bal, balle; akin to OHG. balla, palla, G. ball,
Icel. böllr, ball; cf. F. balle. Cf. 1st Bale, n., Pallmall.]
1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball
of twine; a ball of snow.
2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by
throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or
knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or
iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifball;
– often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for
the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
5. (Pirotechnics & Mil.)
Definition: A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with
combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to
produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
6. (Print.)
Definition: A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a
ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now
superseded by the roller.
7. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the
ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
8. (Far.)
Definition: A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to
horses; a bolus. White.
9. The globe or earth. Pope.
Move round the dark terrestrial ball. Addison.
Ball and socket joint, a joint in which a ball moves within a socket,
so as to admit of motion in every direction within certain limits.
– Ball bearings, a mechanical device for lessening the friction of
axle bearings by means of small loose metal balls.
– Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a ball, as distinguished
from a blank cartridge, containing only powder.
– Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by the
fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever.
– Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral
deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its
socket. Knight.
– Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock.
– Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids
and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye.
– Ball valve (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed in a
circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve.
– Ball vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of
a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
– Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.
Syn.
– See Globe.
Ball, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Balled (p. pr. & vb. n. Balling.]
Definition: To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or
clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
Ball, v. t.
1. (Metal.)
Definition: To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
2. To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
Ball, n. Etym: [F. bal, fr. OF. baler to dance, fr. LL. ballare. Of
uncertain origin; cf. Gr. to toss or throw, or , , to leap, bound, to
dance, jump about; or cf. 1st Ball, n.]
Definition: A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition