balling iron

noun

ball·ing iron | \ ˈbȯ-liŋ-

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Medical Definition of balling iron

: a long metal instrument with a cup-shaped depression at one end for placing solid medicine in the posterior part of the mouth of a horse or ox so that it will have to be swallowed whole

— called also balling gun

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