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Bowling   /bˈoʊlɪŋ/   Listen
Bowling

noun
1.
A game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them.
2.
(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman.
3.
The playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc.



Bowl

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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"Bowling" Quotes from Famous Books



... graperies, peach and forcing houses, pavilions picturesquely hung over the yawning precipice on two headlands, one looking towards Sillery, the other towards the Island of Orleans, the scene of many a cosy tea-party; bowers, rustic chairs perdues among the groves, a superb bowling green and archery grounds. The mansion itself contained an exquisite collection of paintings from old masters, a well- selected library of rare and standard works, illuminated Roman missals, rich portfolios with curious etchings, marble busts, ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... over stream; and this kind of journey has something in it so independent and amusing, that with all its fatigues and inconveniences, we find it delightful—far preferable even to travelling in the most commodious London-built carriage, bowling along the queen's highway with four swift posters, at the rate ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... lover will confer upon you, my youth. Whereas the attachment of the non-lover, which is alloyed with a worldly prudence and has worldly and niggardly ways of doling out benefits, will breed in your soul those vulgar qualities which the populace applaud, will send you bowling round the earth during a period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool ...
— Phaedrus • Plato

... brought out the red in the girls' hair, so the pastime promised to weather one season, at least. She gave dances and picnics on alternate weeks, and her hospitality in the matter of luncheons and dinners was unbounded. The Colonel built a bowling-alley and a proper tennis-court; in short, there was no doubt about "The Belmonts'" being the nucleus of Menlo Park. Several times Helena persuaded the owner of the stage line between Redwood City and La Honda to let her drive; and she took a select few of her friends on the top ...
— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... gay burst of felicitation, after which Carlisle became somewhat silent. Canning, bowling proficiently up Washington Street, spoke of his honored maternal grandmother, the great lady Mrs. Theodore Spencer, and her famous Brookline home. Beside him, Carlisle, listening with one ear only, ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison


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