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Canterbury ball
Canterbury Can"ter*bur*y, n. 1. A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas [`a] Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. 2. A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. Canterbury ball (Bot.), a species of Campanula of several varieties, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers. Canterbury gallop, a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding to Canterbury; a canter. Canterbury tale, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers to pass away the time.

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- The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney...
- outscored by a total of 195 to 58. The 1946 Canterbury Purple Warriors football team represented Canterbury College of Danville, Indiana, as a member of...
- The chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury, an English monk, contains what is possibly the earliest known reference to ball lightning, dated 7 June 1195...
- professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and lock for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League (NRL). He previously pla****...
- career, Ball was ordained as an Anglican priest. He also served in Anglican chaplaincies in Madrid and Damascus, where he was Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...
- and was subsequently buried at Canterbury on 24 February. Sir Reginald Bray was one of his executors. Elrington Ball described him as one of the greatest...
- In cricket, a no-ball (in the Laws and regulations: "No ball") is a type of illegal delivery to a batter (the other type being a wide). It is also a type...
- (1550–1610), Lord Bishop of Worcester Baldwin (1125–1190), Archbishop of Canterbury Ball, Sir Peter, Knight Bampfeild, Sir Copleston, Bart (1633–1692) De Bampton...
- a Tonga international rugby league footballer who last pla**** for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL. He previously pla**** for the Penrith Panthers...
- Geoffrey Chaucer offered an allusion to such ball skills in fourteenth century England. In the Canterbury Tales (written some time after 1380) he uses...