"soot-ball" meaning in English

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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": "1855, The Ladies' Repository - Volume 15, page 197",
          "text": "What was true at first becomes a vile untruth before it has run its race; and the person who started the snow-ball, or, rather, the soot-ball, to rolling is responsible, in no small measure, for what it accumulates before it has reached the bottom of the hill.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, James Cowan, The Adventures of Kimble Bent",
          "text": "The soot-balls were then placed on a layer of poroporo leaves in an umu, or earth-oven, and steamed for about three hours, when they were taken out and set to dry.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of sootball"
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          "sootball#English"
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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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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, The Ladies' Repository - Volume 15, page 197",
          "text": "What was true at first becomes a vile untruth before it has run its race; and the person who started the snow-ball, or, rather, the soot-ball, to rolling is responsible, in no small measure, for what it accumulates before it has reached the bottom of the hill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, James Cowan, The Adventures of Kimble Bent",
          "text": "The soot-balls were then placed on a layer of poroporo leaves in an umu, or earth-oven, and steamed for about three hours, when they were taken out and set to dry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of sootball"
      ],
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