Tennis: alternatives and connections

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to ma…

See Balk.

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end…

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches…

A driving; a violent movement.

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Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

A game of chance played with dice.

Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.