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bowl

1   [bohl]
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.
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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.
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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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Origin:
before 950; Middle English bolle, Old English bolla; cognate with Old Norse bolli. See boll

Related forms
bowl·like, 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 followed by over or down).
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.
Verb phrase
15.
bowl over, to surprise greatly: We were bowled over by the news.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule < Middle French < Latin bulla bubble, knob; compare boil1, bola

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
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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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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).
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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


  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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