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.
Bowl (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled (&?;);
p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Shak.
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.
Alas, I had rather be set
quick i' the
earth,
And bowled to death with
turnips&?;
Shak.
To
bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by
knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.
Bowl (bōl),
n. [F. boule, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud. Cf. Bull an edict, Bill a writing.]
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.
Sir W.
Scott.
3. pl. The game of tenpins or bowling. [U.S.]
Bowl (bōl),
n. [OE. bolle, AS. bolla; akin to Icel. bolli, Dan.
bolle, G. bolle, and
perh. to E. boil a tumor. Cf. Boll.]
1. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately
hemispherical), to hold liquids,
etc.
Brought them food in bowls of basswood.
Longfellow.
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.
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