dustball

Definitions

1. A ball of dust.
2. A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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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