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bowl·ing    Audio Help   [boh-ling] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.any of several games in which players standing at one end of an alley or green roll balls at standing objects or toward a mark at the other end, esp. a game in which a heavy ball is rolled from one end of a wooden alley at wooden pins set up at the opposite end. Compare boccie, candlepin (def. 2), duckpin (def. 2), lawn bowling, ninepin (def. 2), tenpin (def. 2).
2.the game of bowls.
3.an act or instance of playing or participating in any such game: Bowling is a pleasant way to exercise.
[Origin: 1525–35; bowl2 + -ing1]
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bowl 2    Audio Help   (bōl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A large wooden ball weighted or slightly flattened so as to roll with a bias.
  2. A roll or throw of this ball, as in bowling.
  3. bowls (used with a sing. verb) See lawn bowling.
  4. A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.

v.   bowled, bowl·ing, bowls

v.   intr.
    1. To participate in a game of bowling.
    2. To throw or roll a ball in bowling.
    3. To hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight throughout the delivery.
  2. To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling: The children bowled along on their bicycles.

v.   tr.
  1. To throw or roll (a ball).
    1. To achieve (a specified score) by bowling.
    2. To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling.
  3. To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling: bowled a tire from the garage.
  4. To meet or strike with or as if with the force of a rapidly rolling object.

Phrasal Verb(s):
bowl out
To retire (a batsman in cricket) with a bowled ball that knocks the bails off the wicket.
bowl over
  1. To take by surprise.
  2. To make a powerful impression on; overwhelm.

[Middle English boule, from Old French, from Latin bulla, round object.]

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bowl·ing    Audio Help   (bō'lĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A game played by rolling a ball down a wooden alley in order to knock down a triangular group of ten pins. Also called tenpins.
    2. A similar game, such as duckpins or ninepins.
  2. Lawn bowling.
  3. The playing of one of these games.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
bowling 
1535, "playing at bowls" (1440, implied in v. bowlyn), from gerund of bowl "wooden ball" (1413), from M.Fr. boule "ball," ult. from L. bulla "bubble, knob, round thing." Bowling alley is from 1555.
"Noon apprentice ... [shall] play ... at the Tenys, Closshe, Dise, Cardes, Bowles nor any other unlawfull game." [Act 11, Henry VII, 1495]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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bowling

noun
1. a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them 
2. (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman 
3. the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈbowling noun
(see also ninepins) the game of skittles, bowls or something similar
Arabic: لُعْبَةُ الكُرَةِ الخَشَبِيَّه
Chinese (Traditional): 滾木球戲，保齡球
Czech: kuželky
Danish: bowling
Dutch: bowling
Estonian: keegel
Finnish: keilailu
French: jeu de boules, de quilles
German: das Bowling
Greek: μπόουλιγκ
Hungarian: golyójáték; US tekézés
Icelandic: keiluspil, keila
Indonesian: boling
Italian: gioco delle bocce*; gioco dei birilli*, bowling
Japanese: ボーリング
Korean: 볼링
Latvian: ķegļu spēle
Lithuanian: žaidimas rutuliais
Norwegian: bowling; kjeglespill
Polish: kręgle
Portuguese (Brazil): jogo de boliche
Portuguese (Portugal): boulingue
Romanian: bowling
Russian: боулинг
Slovak: bowling, americké kolky
Slovenian: balinanje, kegljanje
Spanish: bolos; boliche (Latinoamérica)
Swedish: bowling, bowls
Turkish: bowling oyunu
See also: bowl, bowl over, bowls, bowling-alley, bowling-green

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Bowling Green, KY (city, FIPS 8902) Location: 36.97370 N, 86.44124 W
Population (1990): 40641 (17501 housing units)
Area: 75.0 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 42103, 42104

Bowling Green, IN Zip code(s): 47833

Bowling Green, MO (city, FIPS 7660) Location: 39.33896 N, 91.19557 W
Population (1990): 2976 (1328 housing units)
Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 63334

Bowling Green, OH (city, FIPS 7972) Location: 41.37645 N, 83.64946 W
Population (1990): 28176 (8964 housing units)
Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43402

Bowling Green, VA (town, FIPS 8888) Location: 38.04978 N, 77.35101 W
Population (1990): 727 (302 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 22427

Bowling Green, FL (city, FIPS 7775) Location: 27.63729 N, 81.82381 W
Population (1990): 1836 (681 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Bowling

Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.]

1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak.

2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips? --Shak.

To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

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