Meaning

14 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Aggregation into clumps or balls;

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of winding into a ball.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The act of curling up.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The act of wrapping something up.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The act of cutting the roots (of a tree) about six inches from the stem, wrapping roots and soil in a sack, then tying the sack with twine.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of using a wrecking ball.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The accumulation of soil on the feet of a bird, a process that eventually leads to infection.

  8. (countable, uncountable)The accumulation of material such as snow or mud under the feet of a horse.

  9. (countable, uncountable)The act of forcing a bolus of medicine down the throat of an animal.

  10. (countable, uncountable)An incident when worker bees surround a queen bee, usually leading to her death by suffocation or starvation.

  11. (countable, uncountable)The process of firing ball-like projectiles.

  12. (countable, uncountable)The act of scouring out a pipe or drain by forcing rocks or similar items through it with high-pressure water.

Origin

By surface analysis, ball + -ing.

By surface analysis, ball + -ing.

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Forms

plural: ballings
Singularballing
Pluralballings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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