Definition of bowl

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

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Nineholes :: Nineholes (n. pl.) A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled..
Erratic :: Erratic (n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon..
Bowless :: Bowless (a.) Destitute of a bow.
Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
Crateriform :: Crateriform (a.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
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..
Bowlder :: Bowlder (n.) Alt. of Boulde.
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..
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..
Dish :: Dish (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table..
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..
Horseback :: Horseback (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition..
Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Spoon :: Spoon (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food..
Bowler :: Bowler (n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game..
Over-arm :: Over-arm (a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking..
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