soot-ball
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of sootball.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."