ball alley

短语

词形变化

ball alleys 复数 ball alleys

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground beside a gable to an indoor four-walled court similar to a squash court.

    爱尔兰

    A portion of it was still further desecrated ; up to a very recent period being used as a racket-court, or ball-alley

    The school was partly in front of them and on fine evenings, the gable end was used as a ball alley and it was quite a gathering place for young people.

  2. 2.

    A bowling alley.

    美国 废旧

    It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep or maintain in the said village, any ball-alley, or apparatus, alley, machine, building or enclosure, constructed or used for the purpose of playing thereon or therewith at the game called or known by the name of nine-pins or ten-pins, for gain, hire, reward or emolument of any kind or in any manner whatsoever;

    [I] knew [Herman Melville] when he was setting up pins in a ball alley.