article on: ball Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons has related media at: Category:Balls (UK) enPR: bôl, IPA(key): /bɔːl/ (General American) IPA(key): /bɔl/ (cot–caught
of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds. A baton, or military staff
ball-shaped pieces of foods. Hyponym: melon baller fruit baller A person employed to divide molten metal into separate balls before it is hammered out. (slang)
entrance billiards: the end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked principal operative part of a machine or tool end of hammer
indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool