BALLOT

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

2.
n.

The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of the ballot. Dickens.

3.
n.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

4.
v.

To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.

5.
v.

To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

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