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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..

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..

Anconoid :: Anconoid (a.) Elbowlike; anconal.

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Dish :: Dish (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table..

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..

Boulder :: Boulder (n.) Same as Bowlder.

Rombowline :: Rombowline (n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear..

Whiskin :: Whiskin (n.) A shallow drinking bowl.

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

Rub :: Rub (n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness..

Embowl :: Embowl (v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.

Roundness :: Roundness (n.) The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc..

Mazer :: Mazer (n.) A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.

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