ball alley

Definitions

1. 1

   A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground…

   A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground beside a gable to an indoor four-walled court similar to a squash court.

   • A portion of it was still further desecrated ; up to a very recent period being used as a racket-court, or ball-alley
   • Perhaps the single most poignant image in the book is of the handball champion Mickey Walsh, described by Healy as 'our last hero' tossing a ball to himself in the dilapidated ball alley.
   • The school was partly in front of them and on fine evenings, the gable end was used as a ball alley and it was quite a gathering place for young people.
2. 2

   A bowling alley.

   • [I] knew [Herman Melville] when he was setting up pins in a ball alley.

The neighborhood