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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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..
Over :: Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places..
Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To play with bowls.
Alioth :: Alioth (n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper..
Rombowline :: Rombowline (n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear..
Bowless :: Bowless (a.) Destitute of a bow.
Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball..
Slop :: Slop (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon..
Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
Hypocraterimorphous :: Hypocraterimorphous (a.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac..
Under-arm :: Under-arm (a.) Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm..
Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
Monopetalous :: Monopetalous (a.) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous..
Chalice :: Chalice (n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper..
Rub :: Rub (n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness..
Horseback :: Horseback (n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition..
Embowl :: Embowl (v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
Brace :: Brace (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves..
Spoon :: Spoon (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food..
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