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Bowl   /boʊl/   Listen
noun
Bowl  n.  
1.
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. "Brought them food in bowls of basswood."
2.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
3.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
4.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.


Bowl  n.  
1.
A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
2.
pl. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. "Like an uninstructed bowler,... who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it."
3.
pl. The game of tenpins or bowling. (U.S.)


verb
Bowl  v. t.  (past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)  
1.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. "Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven."
2.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
3.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.


Bowl  v. i.  
1.
To play with bowls.
2.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
3.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.





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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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