spent ball

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. [1913 Webster]

Now thou seest me Spent, overpowered, despairing of success.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

Heaps of spent arrows fall and strew the ground.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. [1913 Webster]

Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. [1913 Webster] Sper