soot ball
English
Noun
soot ball (plural soot balls)
- Alternative form of sootball
- 1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35:
- He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.
- 2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128:
- Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.
- 2016 -, Alexandra Morton & Billy Proctor, Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story, →ISBN, page 102:
- When enough collects, the stove is starved for oxygen and the flame goes out in a spawn of tiny, velvety, soot balls from every crack.
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