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Bowl   /boʊl/   Listen
noun
Bowl  n.  
1.
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. "Brought them food in bowls of basswood."
2.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
3.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
4.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.



Bowl  n.  
1.
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.
2.
pl. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. "Like an uninstructed bowler,... who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it."
3.
pl. The game of tenpins or bowling. (U.S.)



verb
Bowl  v. t.  (past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)  
1.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. "Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven."
2.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
3.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.



Bowl  v. i.  
1.
To play with bowls.
2.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
3.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.






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"Bowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... kindly hospitalities in the two homes which crown its twin heights; Bedford and Brooklyn Lakes, with log cottages beneath clustering trees; Minnie Lake, and its great alligator sleeping on a log; starry Lily-Pad; and Osceola's Punch-bowl, deep enough, and none too large, to hold the potations of a Worthy; Twin Lakes, scarce divided by the island in their midst; Double Pond, low sunk in the green forest slope, a perfect circle bisected by a wooded ridge; Geneva Lake, dotted with islands and beautiful with shining orange-groves;—always ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

... Frenchman, and removed his pipe from his mouth. He trimmed the bowl fastidiously with his thumb, smiling the while. Of a sudden he looked up, and the smile was gone. He gave Mills back a look as purposeful ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon

... it would be the polite way to do as he was told, returned the bow and went out. The Frenchman put his hand on his shoulder, and they went down stairs together and took their seats in the salon, where his companion gave an order, and in two or three minutes a bowl of broth was placed ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... Thompson, not without many sighs and some tears. A silence ensued, which lasted some minutes, and then the conversation turned on different subjects, till we arrived at a house on the road, where the horseman alighted, and begged with so much earnestness that we would go in and drink a bowl of punch with him, that we could not resist. But, if I was alarmed at his voice, what must my amazement be, when I discovered by the light the very person of my lamented friend! Perceiving my confusion, which was extreme, he clasped me in his arms, and bedewed my face with tears. It was ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... companies covering some 600 yards in front, and four companies in reserve, in column, with 50 paces distance between the single ranks, steered upon the tall cone which marked the right-centre of the Boers. Their march led them at first downhill into the broad bowl which lay below the foot of the kopjes, a hollow as smooth as a meadow but for the infrequent ant-hills. Shrapnel began from the first to burst over the battalion, but the soldiers pressed steadily onward until, at a point some 1,200 yards from the enemy, severe rifle-fire began to play ...
— History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) - Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government • Frederick Maurice


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