What is "grounders"

Usage examples of "grounders".

There were many different kinds of ball: high-flying, known as flies, long balls, flat, corner, short balls, popflies, rollers, grounders, dribblers, goal balls, and triple-run balls.

The girls he dropped in the sandbox beside the courts, Bitsy he asked to hit grounders at him off the batting tee.

She had an aluminium bat in her hands and she was knocking fly balls and grounders to half a dozen preadolescent boys, arrayed throughout the infield and outfield, playing a game called five hundred.

Some who had been grounders bought floaters and joined the restless throngs in the sky.

He took Hatty out onto the Arizona practice field, fed him grounders, and tried to teach him footwork.

He had no wish to perfect himself in the hitting of long-distance balls, grounders, or treacherous bunts -- besides, Heini Kadlubek was a past master at long-distance balls.

Here on the parade-ground a soldier, his coat and vest removed, was batting grounders and flies to a half-dozen of his fellows.

I knocked grounders and line drives toward Huge, who now could field with the best of them.

Proscription is the work of a bunch of bureaucrats, a lot of nervous nellies, grounders all.