TENNIS BALL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Tennis ball

... and superior texture: yellow is procured from the butter and tallow tree, producing a juice resembling gamboge, but more cohesive, and of a darker colour; the wood of this tree is firm, and adapted to a variety of purposes; its fruit is about the size of a tennis ball, nearly oval, thick in the rind, and of a pleasant acid taste, containing several seeds about the size of a walnut, and yielding a viscous substance used by the natives in their food. Red and black are procured from a variety of other trees and plants; ...

— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry

... throwing a tennis ball at him with such unexpectedly good aim that it hit him squarely in ...

— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick