thistleball

English

Etymology

thistle +‎ ball

Noun

thistleball (countable and uncountable, plural thistleballs)

1. (countable) A spherical thistle.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (uncountable, nonce word) Thistledown.
   • 1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

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