Soot-ball
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Soot-ball is a noun meaning Alternative form of sootball.
Meaning
Alternative form of sootball.
Example Sentences
The soot-balls were then placed on a layer of poroporo leaves in an umu, or earth-oven, and steamed for about three hours, when they were taken out and set to dry.
What was true at first becomes a vile untruth before it has run its race; and the person who started the snow-ball, or, rather, the soot-ball, to rolling is responsible, in no small measure, for what it accumulates before it has reached the bottom of the hill.
Word Forms
- soot-balls
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cottonball, slime ball, washball, witchball, wash ball, seaball.
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