Bocci Ball (Noun)
Meaning
Wooden ball that is bowled in the Italian game of bocce.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The large wooden bocci ball is released from a player's hand as it rolls across the grass court in search of its target.
- The objective of the game of bocce is to get your team's smaller bocci balls as close as possible to the one large bocci ball on the playing field.
- In a thrilling upset, the underdog team knocked the opposing team's bocci ball out of the way to claim victory.
- To play the game of bocce, each team rolls out their bocci balls onto the court and then takes turns trying to get their balls closer to the large bocci ball.
- After the match, the teams shook hands and returned the bocci balls to the storage container so that others could play.