spent ball

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spent \Spent\ (sp[e^]nt), a.
   1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
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            Now thou seest me
            Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.
                                                  --Addison.
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            Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. (Zool.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of
      fishes.
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   {Spent ball}, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an
      object without having sufficient force to penetrate it.
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