thistleball

English

Etymology

thistle +‎ ball

Noun

thistleball (countable and uncountable, plural thistleballs)

(countable) A spherical thistle.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
(uncountable, nonce word) Thistledown.
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
  We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball

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