Ball Hawking - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ball hawkingball hawking
skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit used of a Baseball or basketball or football player...
Hawk
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidaelig They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill and in having shorter and less pointed wings Many are of large size and grade into the eagles Some as the goshawk were formerly trained like falcons In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied also to true falcons as the sparrow hawk pigeon hawk duck hawk and prairie hawk...
Ball
Any round or roundish body or mass a sphere or globe as a ball of twine a ball of snow...
Hawked
Curved like a hawks bill crooked...
balled
formed or gathered into a ball...
Ball flower
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower the petals of which form a cup round it usually inserted in a hollow molding...
gutter ball
A bowl in which the ball falls into the gutter4 resulting in a score of zero for that bowl...
Ping pong ball
the small hollow celluloid ball used for the game of ping pong...
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Billiards
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth covered rectangular table bounded by elastic cushions The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike carom upon two other balls or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished...
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