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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Dish :: Dish (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table..
Bowleg :: Bowleg (n.) A crooked leg.
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..
Anconoid :: Anconoid (a.) Elbowlike; anconal.
Slop :: Slop (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc..
Sneak :: Sneak (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
Bias :: Bias (n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line..
Washbowl :: Washbowl (n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc..
Over-arm :: Over-arm (a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.
Commode :: Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet..
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..
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..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances..
Bouldery :: Bouldery (a.) Characterized by bowlders.
Round-arm :: Round-arm (a.) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally..
Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along..
Bowler :: Bowler (n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
Crateriform :: Crateriform (a.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
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