tennis ball
See also: Tennisball
English
Etymology
From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball.
Noun
tennis ball (plural tennis balls)
- A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 72:
- King. What Treaſure Vncle? / Exe. Tennis balles, my Liege.
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Translations
ball for tennis
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