trap-ball

On a large green area in the middle of the town, a number of boys, and even young men, were enjoying themselves, and playing at trap-ball.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

Lord John played with us and the children at trap-ball, shooting, etc.

Lady John Russell Ed 1910

They made him and me join them in a match at trap-ball that lasted two hours and a half.

Lady John Russell Ed 1910

Page 69 horses, and leaping over each other's shoulders, the head of course inclined, but the column of the body almost upright; and as the leaper would strike far below, with a jar calculated to jolt a man's vital organs out of gear forever, he would instantly assume position again, with a shout, while two hundred pounds of yelling, human trap-ball would in turn execute the perilous flying leap over his head.

Four years under Marse Robert, 1904

With the spring came the out-door sports of the season; among others that of ball -- for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days -- a game called trap-ball.

Men of Iron 1891

So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant the game of trap-ball was in full swing every afternoon, the play-ground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden -- the pleasance in which the ladies of the Earl's family took the air every day, and upon which their apartments opened.

Men of Iron 1891

He gave, indeed, a short bark, and bounced up two or three times like a trap-ball, looking both ways at once; but this action only called down upon him universal derision.

The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 Thomas Nelson Page 1887

So now that the sun was warm and the weather pleasant the game of trap-ball was in full swing every afternoon, the play-ground being an open space between the wall that surrounded the castle grounds and that of the privy garden -- the pleasance in which the ladies of the Earl's family took the air every day, and upon which their apartments opened.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

With the spring came the out-door sports of the season; among others that of ball -- for boys were boys, and played at ball even in those faraway days -- a game called trap-ball.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

The twins, as little children, had always had the same occupations, Henrietta learning Latin, marbles, and trap-ball, and

Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862