Ball

bawl, n. anything round: a bullet: a well- known game. [Fr. WV, Weigand has shown that this a Romance word, as in It. fall a—Gr. falld, to swing, akin to hallo to throw.] Ball, bawl, u. an entertainment of dancing. [Fr. bal—It. and Low L. ball are, to dance, from Gr. ballo to throw, the game of ball-throwing having been a ociated with music and dancing.]