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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr & vb n. {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. --Shak. 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. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips? --Shak. {To bowl} (a player) {out}, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bowling \Bowl"ing\, n. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. {Bowling alley}, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. {Bowling green}, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bowling n 1: the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman 2: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over 3: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
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