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Subject:	Re: tavern name
From:	Anne Brockett <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:58:22 -0800
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Another "blue ball" has something to do with targets for shooting.  Sorry
to be so inspecific, but that's all I know & don't have any helpful
resources on hand.

Anne

At 10:40 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>On an early meaning of the term "blue ball," that of
>a veneral buboe, see Jonathan Evan Lighter, ed.
>*Random House Historical Dictionary of American
>Slang,* vol. 1, p. 208 (1994).
>
>

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