How to pronounce stoolball
American English pronunciation
STOOL-bawl
- IPA
- /ˈstulˌbɔl/
- Syllables
- STOOL · bawl (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What stoolball means
An old English bat-and-ball game, an ancestor of cricket
In a sentence: At the village fair, the children played stoolball on the green with a wooden bat.
Where it comes from: It joins stool and ball, though no one is sure exactly how the name came about.
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