BA

Example Sentences

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That ba’ was really the start o’ football here,” said her son Davie, according to the club’s official history.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2015

Burd Ellen round about the aisle To seek the ba' has gane: But she bade lang, and ay langer, And she came na back again.

From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by Napier, James

At last a substance we hae got, Frae which for scarce mair than a groat, A ba' comes that can row and stot— A ba' the most transcendent.

From Poems on Golf by Society, Edinburgh Burgess Golfing

He gae his arm an awfu' sweel roond, an' instead o' sendin' the ba' to the wickets, it gaed spung ower an' hut Sandy a yark i' the side o' the heid.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.

He listened intently when he was bidden to "keep his eye on the ba'", and to be "slow up."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir