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say it: HAND-bawl
handball is a noun meaning "a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball". It is pronounced /ˈhændˌbɔl/ — HAND-bawl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handball come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.