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GROUND RULE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a special rule (as in baseball) dealing with situations that arise due to the nature of the playing grounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ground rule" is a kind of...):
rule (directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)