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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STOOLBALL

STOOLBALL Stool "ball `, n.

Defn: A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.

New American Oxford Dictionary

stoolball

stool |ball |ˈstuːlbɔːl | ▶noun [ mass noun ] (in the UK ) a team game resembling cricket, with a board (originally a stool ) as a wicket, played chiefly by women and girls.

Oxford Dictionary

stoolball

stool |ball |ˈstuːlbɔːl | ▶noun [ mass noun ] (in the UK ) a team game resembling cricket, with a board (originally a stool ) as a wicket, played chiefly by women and girls.