Definition of Boxball

1. Noun. Any of various informal ball games or sports played with boxes, or in a box-shaped court. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boxball

1. a form of handball [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxball

box seat
box seats
box set
box sets
box spring
box the gnat
box tortoise
box tree
box turtle
box up
box white oak
box wine
box wrench
boxable
boxball (current term)
boxberries
boxberry
boxboard
boxboards
boxcar
boxcar function
boxcar functions
boxcars
boxcutter
boxcutters
boxed
boxed-in(a)
boxed in

Literary usage of Boxball

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "Titanic" Disaster: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on by William Alden Smith, Isidor Rayner (1912)
"Mr. boxball got away from the ship and we stopped for a time. Several times we stop|>ed rowing to listen for the lapping of the water against the icebergs. ..."

2. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia by Georgia (1918)
"... etc. corporation operating for gain a bowling, boxball, ten-pin alley, or any alley of like character, for public play, $25.00. ..."

3. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed by Kentucky (1906)
"To the keeper of a nine pin or ten pin or bowling or boxball alley or other similar contrivance for the use of which a price is charged, fifteen dollars, ..."

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