Definition of Ball carrier

1. Noun. (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play.

Exact synonyms: Runner
Category relationships: Football, Football Game
Generic synonyms: Football Player, Footballer
Specialized synonyms: Forward Passer, Passer, Rusher

Definition of Ball carrier

1. Noun. (American football Canadian football rugby) A player who carries the football. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball Carrier

ball-pein hammer
ball-pein hammers
ball-playing
ball-point pen
ball-point pens
ball-shaped
ball-valve thrombus
ball ache
ball and chain
ball and socket joint
ball and socket joints
ball bearing
ball bearings
ball boy
ball boys
ball carrier
ball carriers
ball cartridge
ball clay
ball club
ball cock
ball fern
ball field
ball flower
ball flowers
ball game
ball games
ball girl
ball girls
ball gown

Literary usage of Ball carrier

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

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Sun-symbolism, also, seems to underlie the tale of Ball-Carrier,18 the boy who was lured ... Ball-Carrier, who is a kind of Indian Jack the Giant-Killer, ..."

2. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"Sun-symbolism, also, seems to underlie the tale of Ball-Carrier,13 the boy who was lured ... Ball-Carrier, who is a kind of Indian Jack the Giant-Killer, ..."

3. Swimming and Watermanship by Louis de B. Handley (1922)
"... or the goal- tender will leave his post to engage the ball carrier, who can then pass to his fellow forward as the latter approaches the board and offer ..."

4. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"Ball-carrier and the Bad One. Lang. Aladdin and other stories. Lang. Brown fairy book. Ball of thread. Gregory. Kiltartan wonder book. Balloon boy. ..."

5. Magnetism and Electricity by Frederick Guthrie (1876)
"Gradually discharge Positively and Negatively charged Jars by Pith ball carrier.—Place knobs of jars 5 or 6 inches apart, suspend insulated pith ball ..."

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