"dustball" meaning in English

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        "A ball of dust."
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          "text": "Long residence in lime districts had furnished the experience, that phosphatic calculi are not even as common as among the horses and ponies of coal-mines; and, further, that both phosphatic calculi, and more generally mixed or the dustball kind, are very prevalent in those pits, and even districts above ground, where no lime-water whatever can be obtained.",
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        "A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse."
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        "(archaic) A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse."
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