Sentence:  Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other <WSD>boules</WSD> away from the jack-ball, or "cochonnet". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.