When it is desired, however, to examine the molar teeth with the fingers, so as to obtain a better idea of their condition, an instrument like the Balling iron which is used for the horse should be introduced into the mouth, so as to separate the jaws and keep them apart while the examination is being made.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Then with the winter comes skating, with hockey and Prisoner's Base on the ice, and coasting and sledding and snow-Balling, to say nothing of forts and snowmen.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
When not yet fifty years of age he was made physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, and had the unapproached record of five elections to the presidency of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Dublin-more than enough to make up for the one serious setback in his medical career, his black-Balling by the college only a few years before.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh