stoolball

See also: stool-ball

English

Noun

stoolball (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of stool-ball
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Nausicaa / With other virgins did at stoolball play.

     The spelling has been modernized.