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noun
A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
ball about the size of a fist used in playing tennis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ball
History
From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis + ball.
Across languages
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