bowls
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bowl 1
(bōl)n.
1.
a. A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.
b. The contents of such a vessel.
2. A drinking goblet.
3. A bowl-shaped part, as of a spoon or pipe.
4.
a. A bowl-shaped topographic depression.
b. A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.
5. Football Any of various postseason games played between specially selected teams, especially at the college level.
bowl 2
(bōl)n.
1. A ball, traditionally made of wood, that is weighted or slightly flattened so as to roll with a bias, used in lawn bowling.
2. A roll or throw of a ball in lawn bowling and other bowling games.
3. bowls(used with a sing. verb) See lawn bowling.
4. A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.
v. bowled, bowl·ing, bowls
v.intr.
1.
a. To participate in a game of bowling: I bowl every Thursday night in a league.
b. To throw or roll a ball in a game of bowling: It's your turn to bowl.
c. To hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight throughout the delivery.
2. To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling: The sportscar bowled along through the countryside.
v.tr.
Phrasal Verbs: 1. To throw or roll (a ball).
2.
a. To make (a specified score) in bowling: placed first by bowling 237; bowled a strike in the first frame.
b. To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling: She bowled eight frames before deciding to use a different ball.
3. To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling: bowled a tire from the garage.
4. To meet or strike with or as if with the force of a rapidly rolling object: The swimmer was bowled over by the wave.
bowl out
To retire (a batsman in cricket) with a bowled ball that knocks the bails off the wicket.
bowl over
1. To take by surprise.
2. To make a powerful impression on; overwhelm.
[Middle English boule, from Old French, from Latin bulla, round object.]
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bowls
(bəʊlz)n (functioning as singular)
1. (Bowls & Bowling)
a. a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
b. (as modifier): a bowls tournament.
2. (Bowls & Bowling) skittles or tenpin bowling
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| Noun | 1. |  bowls - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jackbowling - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them bowl - a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling jack - a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling |
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Translations
لُعْبَةِ الكُرَةِ الخَشَبِيَّه
koule
boccia
teke
graskeiluleikur
tahta top oyunu
bowls
[ˈbəʊlz] n → (jeu m de) boules fplto play bowls → jouer aux boulesbow tie [ˌbəʊˈtaɪ] n → nœud m papillonbow window [ˌbəʊˈwɪndəʊ] n → bow-window m (en arc de cercle), oriel m
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bowl1
(bəul) noun a wooden ball rolled along the ground in playing bowls. See also bowls below .
verb1. to play bowls.
2. to deliver or send (a ball) towards the batsman in cricket.
3. to put (a batsman) out by hitting the wicket with the ball. Smith was bowled for eighty-five (= Smith was put out after making eighty-five runs).
ˈbowler nounˈbowling noun
(see also ninepins) the game of skittles, bowls or something similar.
bowls noun singular a game played on a smooth green with bowls having a bias. a game of bowls.
ˈbowling-alley noun1. a long narrow set of wooden boards along which one bowls at skittles.
2. a building which contains several of these.
ˈbowling-green noun a smooth piece of grass for playing bowls on.
bowl over to knock down. I was bowled over in the rush for the door; His generosity bowled me over.
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