bowls
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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.
verb (used with object)
10.
to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
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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.
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)
Verb phrases 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.
13.
to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
14.
Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually followed by out ): He was bowled for a duck. He was bowled out for a duck.
15.
bowl over, to surprise greatly: We were bowled over by the news.
lawn bowling
noun
a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 ( def 2 ), bowling green, jack1 ( def 7 ), rink ( def 5 ).
Origin:
1925–30
1925–30
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bowl1 (bəʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a round container open at the top, used for holding liquid, keeping fruit, serving food, etc |
| 2. | Also: bowlful the amount a bowl will hold |
| 3. | the rounded or hollow part of an object, esp of a spoon or tobacco pipe |
| 4. | any container shaped like a bowl, such as a sink or lavatory |
| 5. | chiefly (US) a bowl-shaped building or other structure, such as a football stadium or amphitheatre |
| 6. | See also dust bowl a bowl-shaped depression of the land surface |
| 7. | literary |
| a. a drinking cup | |
| b. intoxicating drink | |
| [Old English bolla; related to Old Norse bolli, Old Saxon bollo] | |
| bowl2 (bəʊl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a wooden ball used in the game of bowls, having flattened sides, one side usually being flatter than the other in order to make it run on a curved course |
| 2. | a large heavy ball with holes for gripping with the fingers and thumb, used in tenpin bowling |
| —vb (usually foll by along) | |
| 3. | to roll smoothly or cause to roll smoothly, esp by throwing underarm along the ground |
| 4. | to move easily and rapidly, as in a car |
| 5. | cricket |
| a. to send (a ball) down the pitch from one's hand towards the batsman, keeping the arm straight while doing so | |
| b. Also: bowl out to dismiss (a batsman) by delivering a ball that breaks his wicket | |
| 6. | (intr) to play bowls or tenpin bowling |
| 7. | (tr) (in tenpin bowling) to score (a specified amount): he bowled 120 |
| [C15: from French boule, ultimately from Latin bulla bubble] | |
| bowls (bəʊlz) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible |
| b. (as modifier): a bowls tournament | |
| 2. | skittles or tenpin bowling |
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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 *bhl-, from base *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole).
bowls
game played with balls, mid-15c. (implied in bowlyn), from gerund of bowl "wooden ball" (early 15c.), from O.Fr. bole (13c., Mod.Fr. boule) "ball," ultimately from L. bulla "bubble, knob, round thing" (see bull (2)).
"Noon apprentice ... [shall] play ... at the Tenys, Closshe, Dise, Cardes, Bowles nor any other unlawfull game." [Act 11, Henry VII, 1495]
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bowl definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Bowl definition
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).
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Example sentences from the web
The bowls of tobacco pipes are commonly made of briar, corncob, meerschaum, and clay.
Shanks made from maple wood are then inserted into the bowls.
The bowls are removable, though not interchangeable between manufacturers.
Bowls are frequently named by their creators or owners, or by a tea master.
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