Found 1 items, similar to Spent ball.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Spent ball Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a. 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. [1913 Webster] Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. [1913 Webster] Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. [1913 Webster]