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Bowler

noun

A cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket.

A player who rolls balls down an alley at pins.

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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