jack-ball

English

Noun

jack-ball (plural jack-balls)

1. A ball used in boules.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

Translations

ball used in boules

• Catalan: bolig (ca) m, petit (ca) m
• French: cochonnet (fr) m
• German: Zielkugel m, Schweinchen (de) n, Sau (de) f
• Italian: boccino (it) m, pallino (it) m
• Maori: hai
• Spanish: balín m, boliche (es) m