stool-ball

Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.

Ivanhoe 2004

So he led away ye rest and left them; but when they came home at noon from their work he found them in ye street at play openly, some pitching ye bar, and some at stool-ball and such like sports.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

Two-old-cat differed from one-old-cat in having two batters at opposite stations, as in the old English stool-ball and the more modern cricket, while the fielders divided so that half faced one batter and half the other.

Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.

The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

Some were pitching the bar, some were playing at stool-ball, and such sports.

Colonial Children 1902

On the second Christmas, at Plymouth, we find some of the Pilgrims playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

These recreations were, without doubt, competitions in running, leaping, jumping, and perhaps stool-ball, a popular game played by both sexes, in which a ball was driven from stool to stool or wicket to wicket.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

But returning at mid-day and finding them playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball in the streets, he told them that it was against _his_ conscience that they should play and others work, and so made them cease their games.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Her mean was this, though thought a stool-ball chance: 165

Sixth Book 1857

Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819