stool ball

Stool-ball was so named from the setting-up of a stool to be bowled at.

I hear, too, we are to have a real old-fashioned Easter Day—heaving and lifting, and stool-ball.

On the second Christmas, at Plymouth, we find some of the Pilgrims playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball.

Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.

On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.