baseball

noun
/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/UK/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/US

Etymology

From base + ball.

  1. derived from *bʰel-
  2. derived from *bʰélō
  3. inherited from *balluz
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall
  6. inherited from bal
  7. formed as baseball — “base + ball

Definitions

  1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is…

    A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

    • It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
  2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

  3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at baseball. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at baseball. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at baseball

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