soot ball

English

Noun

soot ball (plural soot balls)

1. Alternative form of sootball
   • 1998, Mary Costello, Titanic Town, page 35:

     He looked up from the book and spat into the back of the fire, sending soot balls down on the flames.

   • 2008, Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, →ISBN, page 128:

     Every third day it spewed out soot balls that left black smears wherever they fell.

   • 2016 -, Alexandra Morton, Billy Proctor, Heart of the Raincoast: A Life Story, →ISBN, page 102:

     When enough collects, the stove is starved for oxygen and the flame goes out in a spawn of tiny, velvety, soot balls from every crack.