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bail [bail, bäil]: Nm., etc.; O.N. bǫllr, No. ball, m., a globe; lump.

ball¹ [bal, bäᶅ], vb., 1) to roll together (in a lump); put in disorder; balld [bäᶅd] togedder, tangled; in disorder, (Uⁿ.); O.N. balla, vb., to pack (roll) up. 2) to speak indistinctly, in a disjointed manner; Fe. (Fe^e.); Fær. balla, vb., to babble; chatter; tungan ballar (ballast), the tongue trips. Cf. vall², vb.

ball² [bal, bäl], vb., 1) to strike against something so that it resounds; to carry out some work energetically; de lass stød [‘stood’] ballin [bällın] de boots, the girl was cleaning the boots with all her might; U.? 2) a) to throw; fling, to b. onyting at ane, to b. snawba’s [‘snowballs’]; b) to hit by throwing, to b. de geese, to throw e.g. clods of earth at the geese (N.I.). Du. [bal, bäl]. N.I. [bäl]. Also: to bell [bæl]. O.N. bella, vb., to hit; Icel. bella, to knock against something so that it bangs (B.H.).

balli [bali], sb., small cake of barley- or oat-meal, comm. in the compd. melloin- or mellins-b. = the last and smallest of the cakes (brøni) baked at one time. S.Sh. A form båli [bååli], a “mellins-b.”, a “tirl-b.”, is reported from Sandw., Du. See further mellins, melloin, and tirl², tongi (-balli). O.N. bǫllr, m., a ball; globe; lump; No. ball, m., inter alia bun; a sort of clumsy cake, Sw. dial. ball, m., inter alia a lump of meat.

balligrøt [bal··igrøt·, baᶅ··ıgrøt·], sb., pebbles (collect.), a heap of pebbles. N. Now hardly used except as a place-name, e.g. “de Er o’ Balligrot”, beach at Stavanes, N. Prob.: *ball(a)grjót. For the first part of the compd. “balli-” see ball, sb., and ballisten¹. The second part is grøt, stone (heap of stones, variety of stone). Cf. rolligrøt.

ballisten¹ [bal··isten·], sb., a small, round stone, pebble. Br. Prob.: *ball (or ballar)-steinn, from bǫllr, m., a globe; lump. Cf. bolleti (b. sten) and bolli, sb.

ballisten² [bal··isten·], sb., a stone on the hearth in front of the fire, stone on which the ballis (cakes, see balli, sb.) are placed while being baked. Conn.

balti [ba‘lti], sb., struggle; exertion; pains and trouble; to ha’e [‘have’] a b. Wh. or N.Roe. From the root “bal-”; No. bal, m., inter alia trouble; No., Icel. and Fær. bala, vb., to fight one’s way; exert oneself, etc. O.N. baldrask, vb., to work one’s way with exertion (from a substantive “baldr”).

bambirr [bam·bır(r)·] and more comm. bambirl, -birrel [bam·bır·əl], sb., great haste; excitement, in a b., hurry-skurry; with intense emotion. Uⁿ. Prob. *bangbyrr and *-byrl. O.N. bang, n., noise; uproar, and L.Sc. bang, start; springing away; speed. *byrl, deriv. of “byrr”, m., fair wind; cf. No. byr, m., (fair wind) propulsion; speed, and byrja, vb., to start energetically (R.). In L.Sc., “birl” signifies partly a drilling or whirring sound, partly quick motion. Cf. bir(r), bor(r) [*byrr], sb., which in Shetl. is used uncompounded in the same sense as bambir(l); and cf. the foll. bambus and -busel.

bambus [bam·bus·, -bos·], sb., hurry-skurry, to come in a b. U^mo. Prob. *bang-bus. For “bang” see above bambirr; bus is allied to Da. buse, No. busa, to rush blindly on. — bambusel [bam·bos·əl (-bus·əl)], sb., confused state; great disorder, esp. on account of too great haste; in a b., pell-mell, (of mental state) confused; amazed. Fo., U. — Seems to be a deriv. of bambus, sb. (see above), but prob. arises rather from Eng. “bamboozle”, vb.; “boozle” has