"ball alley" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ball alleys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ball alley (plural ball alleys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Anthony Marmion, The ancient and modern history of the maritime ports of Ireland, p.300 (London: J.H. Banks)",
          "text": "A portion of it was still further desecrated ; up to a very recent period being used as a racket-court, or ball-alley"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Keith Duggan, House of Pain: Through the Rooms of Mayo Football, page 58",
          "text": "Perhaps the single most poignant image in the book is of the handball champion Mickey Walsh, described by Healy as 'our last hero' tossing a ball to himself in the dilapidated ball alley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, November 6, Siobhan Lincoln, Ardmore Memory and Story - The Village \"Roads And Houses\" p.2 (Waterford Museum)",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Paul Rouse, Sport and Ireland: A History, page 60",
          "text": "In Kilkenny City, there was also a tennis court in existence by 1798. This court later became known as a racket court and then a ball alley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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"
      ],
      "id": "en-ball_alley-en-noun-zICraMjo",
      "links": [
        [
          "handball",
          "handball"
        ],
        [
          "gable",
          "gable"
        ],
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ],
        [
          "squash court",
          "squash court"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) 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"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "sense": "court for playing handball",
          "word": "handball alley"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, Charter of the village of Albion, New York; quoted in Tanner v Trustees of Albion 5 Hill 121 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1843)",
          "text": "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;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Hiram R. Hawkins, quoted in Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography; Volume 1 : 1819-1851, p.250 (JHU Press, 2005) →ISBN",
          "text": "[I] knew [Herman Melville] when he was setting up pins in a ball alley."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bowling alley"
      ],
      "id": "en-ball_alley-en-noun-0mkajkbV",
      "links": [
        [
          "bowling alley",
          "bowling alley"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, obsolete) A bowling alley"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ball alley"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ball alleys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ball alley (plural ball alleys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Anthony Marmion, The ancient and modern history of the maritime ports of Ireland, p.300 (London: J.H. Banks)",
          "text": "A portion of it was still further desecrated ; up to a very recent period being used as a racket-court, or ball-alley"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Keith Duggan, House of Pain: Through the Rooms of Mayo Football, page 58",
          "text": "Perhaps the single most poignant image in the book is of the handball champion Mickey Walsh, described by Healy as 'our last hero' tossing a ball to himself in the dilapidated ball alley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, November 6, Siobhan Lincoln, Ardmore Memory and Story - The Village \"Roads And Houses\" p.2 (Waterford Museum)",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Paul Rouse, Sport and Ireland: A History, page 60",
          "text": "In Kilkenny City, there was also a tennis court in existence by 1798. This court later became known as a racket court and then a ball alley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "handball",
          "handball"
        ],
        [
          "gable",
          "gable"
        ],
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ],
        [
          "squash court",
          "squash court"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) 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"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, Charter of the village of Albion, New York; quoted in Tanner v Trustees of Albion 5 Hill 121 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1843)",
          "text": "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;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Hiram R. Hawkins, quoted in Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography; Volume 1 : 1819-1851, p.250 (JHU Press, 2005) →ISBN",
          "text": "[I] knew [Herman Melville] when he was setting up pins in a ball alley."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bowling alley"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bowling alley",
          "bowling alley"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, obsolete) A bowling alley"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "court for playing handball",
      "word": "handball alley"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ball alley"
}