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Bowl :: Bowl (n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal..

Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other..

Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..

Archery :: Archery (n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively..

Leg :: Leg (v. t.) To bow.

Bowess :: Bowess (n.) Same as Bower.

Bow :: Bow (sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.

Ear :: Ear (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell..

Double-ender :: Double-ender (n.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end..

Fiddlestick :: Fiddlestick (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow..

Bow-pen :: Bow-pen (n.) Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.

Unboweling :: Unboweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unbowe.

Courb :: Courb (v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.

Prow :: Prow (n.) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself..

Bow-bells :: Bow-bells (n. pl.) The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Leg :: Leg (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing..

Imbowment :: Imbowment (n.) act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.

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