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Definition of Tennis ball
1. Noun. Ball about the size of a fist used in playing tennis.
Definition of Tennis ball
1. Noun. A bouncy ball designed for the sport of tennis. A rubber, hollow ball, pressurized and covered with felt. Most common color is "Optic Yellow", but many colors exist today. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tennis Ball
Literary usage of Tennis ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Now a baseball has a smooth horsehide cover and weighs several times what a tennis
ball does. The latter is covered with rough felt that offers more ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A lameness of tennis-players, said to be caused by a rupture of some of the fibers
of the pronator radii teres. tennis-ball (ten'is-bal), я. ..."
3. The Earth's Beginning by Robert Stawell Ball (1902)
"Here is a globe, and here in my hand I hold a tennis ball, ... The tennis ball
is to hang so that both globe and ball are about the same height from the ..."
4. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"Of the Implements of Tennis, the racket has a smaller face and is heavier than
the Lawn Tennis racket, because the tennis ball, though of about the same ..."
5. The Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guide. edited by Joseph T Whittelsey, Irving C Wright (1909)
"OO Wright & Ditson Deuce Lawn tennis ball h made of a good quality robber and
... Players who want a durable lawn tennis ball will find the Squash to be the ..."
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