"soot ball" meaning in English

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      "form": "soot balls",
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      "expansion": "soot ball (plural soot balls)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "sootball"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35",
          "text": "He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, page 128",
          "text": "Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 -, Alexandra Morton, Billy Proctor, Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story, page 102",
          "text": "When enough collects, the stove is starved for oxygen and the flame goes out in a spawn of tiny, velvety, soot balls from every crack.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of sootball"
      ],
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  "word": "soot ball"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soot balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "soot ball (plural soot balls)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "sootball"
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        "English countable nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35",
          "text": "He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, page 128",
          "text": "Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 -, Alexandra Morton, Billy Proctor, Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story, page 102",
          "text": "When enough collects, the stove is starved for oxygen and the flame goes out in a spawn of tiny, velvety, soot balls from every crack.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of sootball"
      ],
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  "word": "soot ball"
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