handball
/hˈændbˌɔl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Cranly took a small grey handball from his pocket and began to examine it closely, turning it over and over."
- "It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh."
- "If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded."
- "Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown."
- "An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing."
- "On only 8 occasions during the entire match did players who had marked the ball decide not to walk slowly and purposefully back and take their kick, but instead play on by handballing to a team mate."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English handball From hand + ball.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
handle
offload
European handball
Olympic handball
team handball
sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall