jack-ball

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jack-ball

noun jack-balls

A ball used in boules. 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.

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noun ball used in boules

Español	balín, boliche
Français	cochonnet
Deutsch	Zielkugel, Schweinchen, Sau
Italiano	boccino, pallino

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@misc{jack_ball_2026,
  title = {jack-ball},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jack-ball},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}