thistleball

noun — 2 senses

thistleball

noun

Etymology From thistle + ball.

1

A spherical thistle.

2

Nonce word Thistledown.

We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

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