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noun

Handball n.

A small ball, usually made of rubber, thrown or struck with the hand in various games.

A game played with such a ball, as by players striking it to and fro between them with the hands, or, when played in a walled court or against a single wall, striking it in turns against a wall, until one side or the other fails to return the ball.

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Etymology of 'Handball'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handball" Quotes from Famous Books

... produce excellent qualities of character or high standards of conduct, but the teacher—whether he be called a coach or a trainer or a professor of hygiene—who sets a good example and who insists that every game played, and every contest, whether it be in a handball court between college chums or on the football field between college teams, shall be clean and fair, is using in the right way one of the opportunities present in the entire college life of the student, for the formation of ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

Words linked to "Handball" : court game