stool ball

a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England

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Stool-ball was so named from the setting-up of a stool to be bowled at.

Games and Songs of American Children |Various
I hear, too, we are to have a real old-fashioned Easter Day—heaving and lifting, and stool-ball.

Animal Ghosts |Elliott O'Donnell
On the second Christmas, at Plymouth, we find some of the Pilgrims playing pitch-the-bar and stool-ball.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England |Alice Morse Earle
Stool-ball, like all ball games, was usually played at Easter for tansy cakes.

The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II) |Alice Bertha Gomme

On rainy days the Queen's maids were here accustomed to play at stool-ball.

The Fifth Queen Crowned |Ford Madox Ford