jack-ball

jack-ball

English

Noun

jack-ball (plural jack-balls)

1. A ball used in boules.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

Translations

ball used in boules

Catalan: bolig (ca) m, petit (ca) m French: cochonnet (fr) m German: Zielkugel m, Schweinchen (de) n, Sau (de) f Italian: boccino (it) m, pallino (it) m Maori: hai Spanish: balín m, boliche (es) m