Ballow

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  • adj. Round; pot-bellied.
  • n. Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
  • n. A cudgel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cudgel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An epithet of uncertain meaning, in the following passage: the apparent etymology suggests ‘round,’ ‘pot-bellied.’
  • n. Nautical, deep water inside a shoal or bar.
  • n. A word used only by Shakspere in the passage cited, in the folio of 1623, where the quarto editions have battero and bat; it is, like battero, apparently a misprint for batton, battoon, or battoun, a stick, cudgel. See batton, batoon, baton, and bat.
  • Word Usage
    "Nay, come not near th’ old man; keep out, che vor ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cudgel   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gallo    balow    callow    cavallo    gallow