English Explanatory Dictionary

white ball

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, ball.
name
  1. A hamlet in Sampford Arundel parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0918).

Word forms

white ball white-ball Whiteball

Etymology

Presumably named after White Ball Hill. Whiteball Tunnel, under the boundary with Devon, would have been named after the hill.

Antonyms

red ball
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