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bowl

1  [bohl]
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–noun
1. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
2. the contents of a bowl: a bowl of tomato soup.
3. a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe.
4. a large drinking cup.
5. festive drinking; conviviality.
6. any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
7. an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
8. Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country: the Rose Bowl.
9. Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
–verb (used with object)
10. to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME bolle, OE bolla; c. ON bolli. See boll

Related forms:
bowllike, adjective
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bowl

2  [bohl]
–noun
1. one of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
2. one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
3. bowls, (used with a singular verb) lawn bowling.
4. a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
5. (formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.
–verb (used without object)
6. to play at bowling or bowls; participate in or have a game or games of bowling.
7. to roll a bowl or ball.
8. to move along smoothly and rapidly.
9. Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.
–verb (used with object)
10. to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
11. to attain by bowling: He bowls a good game. She usually bowls a 120 game, but today she bowled 180.
12. to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling (usually fol. by over or down).
13. to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
14. Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually fol. by out): He was bowled for a duck. He was bowled out for a duck.
—Verb phrase
15. bowl over, to surprise greatly: We were bowled over by the news.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME bowle, var. of boule < MF < L bulla bubble, knob; cf. boil 1 , bola
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bowl 1   (bōl)   
n.  

    1. A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.

    2. The contents of such a vessel.

    3. A bowl-shaped topographic depression.

    4. A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.

  2. A drinking goblet.

  3. A bowl-shaped part, as of a spoon or pipe.

    1. A bowl-shaped topographic depression.

    2. A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.

  5. Football Any of various postseason games played between specially selected teams, especially at the college level.


[Middle English bowle, from Old English bolla; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
bowl 2   (bōl)   
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 outTo 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bowl

  1. n.
    a pipe or other device for smoking cannabis. (Drugs.) : There's somebody's bowl out in the hall. Go get it before the neighbors call the fuzz.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bowl 
O.E. bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from P.Gmc. *bul- "a round vessel" (cf. O.N. bolle, O.H.G. bolla), from PIE *bhel- "to inflate, swell" (see bole).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Bowl

The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Ex. 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered "cup" (Gen. 44:2, 12, 16), and wine "pot" (Jer. 35:5). The reservoir for oil, from which pipes led to each lamp in Zechariah's vision of the candlestick, is called also by this name (Zech. 4:2, 3); so also are the vessels used for libations (Ex. 25:29; 37:16).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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