handball
(noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
handball
(noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
Source: WordNet® 3.1
handball (countable and uncountable, plural handballs)
(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
(countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
(countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
(uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
(countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
(countable, Australian Rules Football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
(uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
• (team sport involving throwing a ball into a goal): European handball, Olympic handball, team handball
• (sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall): court handball
• (court handball): American handball, Gaelic handball, Irish handball
handball (third-person singular simple present handballs, present participle handballing, simple past and past participle handballed)
To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
(soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
Synonym: handle
(Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
(sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.
Source: Wiktionary
Hand"ball`, n.
1. A ball for throwing or using with the hand.
2. A game played with such a ball, as by players striking it to and fro between them with the hands, or alternately against a wall, until one side or the other fails to return the ball.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
