[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dribble" (Basketball)

[Shapiro, Fred]

dribble, v. (Basketball) (OED 1893)

1892 James Naismith _Basket Ball: Rules for Basket Ball_ in _The James Naismith Reader_ (2021) 203  A player ... may bat it [the ball] in front of him as he runs, or dribble it with his hand along the ground, but he cannot kick it with his feet, not even to dribble it.

Fred Shapiro

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