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Meaning of dustball | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

日本語 綿埃

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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