soot-ball

English

Noun

soot-ball (plural soot-balls)

  1. Alternative form of sootball
    • 1855, The Ladies' Repository - Volume 15, page 197:
      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.
    • 1991, James Cowan, The Adventures of Kimble Bent, →ISBN:
      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.
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