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Bowl   /boʊl/   Listen
Bowl

noun
1.
A round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids.
2.
A concave shape with an open top.  Synonym: trough.
3.
A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods.
4.
The quantity contained in a bowl.  Synonym: bowlful.
5.
A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments.  Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium.
6.
A large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling.  Synonym: bowling ball.
7.
A wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling.
8.
A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco.  Synonym: pipe bowl.
9.
The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling).  Synonym: roll.
verb
(past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)
1.
Roll (a ball).
2.
Hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end.
3.
Engage in the sport of bowling.



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"Bowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... unfair in her mother not to warn the poor thing a little bit; and she was regularly mean when Rosamond asked for a bowl to put the purple stuff in, and she said, in such a provoking way, 'I did not agree to lend you a bowl, but I will, my dear.' Ugh! I always want to shake that hateful woman, though ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... of the most expensive cigar in the cigar-cabinet and lighted it as only a connoisseur can light a cigar, lovingly; he blew out the match lingeringly, with regret, and dropped it and the cigar's red collar with care into a large copper bowl on the centre table, instead of flinging it against the Japanese umbrella in the fireplace. (A grave disadvantage of radiators is that you cannot throw odds and ends into them.) He chose the most expensive cigar because he wanted comfort and peace. The ham ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... down with them in Mustapha, once he had been conveyed into the house, as comfortably as a cat in front of whom, with every tender precaution, has been placed a bowl of rich milk. In a couple of days it seemed as if he had ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... coachman he saw the whole family at dinner. The women were standing up waiting on them. The young, sturdy-looking son was telling something funny with his mouth full of pudding, and they were all laughing, the woman in the clogs, who was pouring cabbage soup into a bowl, laughing most ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... on which was placed a wash-bowl and towel, and plunged his face and head into the cold water. Five minutes' vigorous splashing and rubbing, and he emerged, his pallid face brown as a berry, his black hair in a snarl of ...
— The Baronet's Bride • May Agnes Fleming


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