'Spent ball' definitions:

Definition of 'Spent ball'

From: GCIDE
  • Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
  • 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. [1913 Webster]
  • Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. [1913 Webster]
  • Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. [1913 Webster] Sper