thistleball
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]thistleball (countable and uncountable, plural thistleballs)
- (countable) A spherical thistle.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (uncountable, nonce word) Thistledown.
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
- We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball