bazz v also bass, baz [bxz, bae,.zl EDD ~ v 1 'throw with force.' To throw (a small stone); specif in games with marbles or buttons, to pitch or toss.
   1891 Holly Branch 19 The youth who 'bazz's' marbles, and delights in other tricks... 1920 WALDO 164-5 They throw marbles against a wall for a sort of carom-shot, and call it 'bazzin' marbles.' 1931 BYRNES 173 "Kenawitch's Lane": And the boys are 'bazzin' ' marbles, as their fathers used to do. 1955 ENGLISH 32 Bass: to throw small stones. P 207--67 If you don't get out of here I'll bazz a rock at you. 1977 RUSSELL 124 'How did you baz a button?' 'Why,' said Grampa, 'you'd just bounce it off the corner post of a store out into the road, and the next fellow'd baz his button and try to make it land close to yours. If he could put it so close that he could span the distance with his thumb and finger, he kept the button and you had to find another one to baz with.'

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