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Flare :: Flare (v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare..

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..

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

Bockey :: Bockey (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

Bowls :: Bowls (n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game..

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder..

Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..

Bowler :: Bowler (n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game..

Chibouk :: Chibouk (n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay..

Sneak :: Sneak (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.

Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc..

Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..

Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To play with bowls.

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward..

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl..

Bellow :: Bellow (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball..

Horseback :: Horseback (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition..

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