cork ball

He learned to bat in the family garage, with his father throwing cork balls to him.

"So I did a shawl like a net, with cork balls throughout, so when you go in the water it will float."

Here and there children ran between the wheels, playing with a cork ball and quiva, the object of the game being to strike the thrown ball.

'Cork balls,' said Pooley. '

Mr. Walz came up with pre-drilled cork balls strung on steel cables, which are then strung like a tennis racket along aluminum frames.

Foxcroft often became frustrated with the traditional design of referees' whistles, which features a "pea" (cork ball) inside that is prone to jamming, thereby preventing the whistle from producing sound.

Although this cage effect has been attributed to Michael Faraday, it was Benjamin Franklin in 1755 who observed the effect by lowering an uncharged cork ball suspended on a silk thread through an opening in an electrically charged metal can.

The piece, 294 prepared dc-motors, cork balls, cardboard boxes 41x41x41cm (2012), just as the title suggests, is composed of card board boxes, each with a small motor attached to it, from which hangs a wire with a cork ball on the end.