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Bowler   /bˈoʊlər/   Listen
Bowler

noun
1.
A cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket.
2.
A player who rolls balls down an alley at pins.
3.
A felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim.  Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat.



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"Bowler" Quotes from Famous Books



... A man was standing before the door, his hands behind him, looking out at the sea. In his long trousers and bowler hat I did not at once recognize him for the ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... produced; and not only animal heat, but animal motion. There is no indistinctness about Mayer here; he grasps his subject in all its details, and reduces to figures the concomitants of muscular action. A bowler who imparts to an 8-lb. ball a velocity of 30 feet, consumes in the act one tenth of a grain of carbon. A man weighing 150 lbs, who lifts his own body to a height of 8 feet, consumes in the act 1 grain of carbon. In climbing a mountain ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... dentist, here there was the large lettering "Tobacconist," there upon a trembling wall the tattered remains of an announcement of a sale of furniture. Once, most ironical of all, a gaping and smoke-stained building showed the half-torn remnant of a cinematograph picture, a fat gentleman in a bowler hat entering with a lady on either arm a gaily painted restaurant. Over this, in big ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

... must be going back," exclaimed Clausen hurriedly. "I wish, March, you'd come and see me some time. My room's 16 Warren. I'm in with a junior by the name of Bowler. Know him?" ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... harmless enough, to all appearance—something less than middle-aged, pale, and with stubbly brown moustache. He was dressed in blue serge clothes, and a bowler hat a little ancient at the brim. Neither his appearance nor his manner was remarkable for any particular intelligence. Yet the girl who looked him ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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