jack-ball

noun

jack-ball

noun

1

A ball used in boules.

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.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

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