What is "ballbearings"

Usage examples of "ballbearings".

Drink imposes its own limit, and women soon become a weariness of the flesh, but the passion for saucy little garden gadgets, bedizened with green paint and ballbearings, is never stilled.

In these days when people write with ballbearings and solid ink, and at the bottom of the lake while swimming, and otherwise miraculously, I am an embittered reactionary scraping away with a wooden pen which I dip after every eighth word.

The door was a giant wooden panel, deeply carved with elaborate filigrees, but it pushed open as though it had been hinged on ballbearings.