bowl - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'bowl' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bowl

[ n.]

- A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
- Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
- The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
- The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
- 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.
- An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
- The game of tenpins or bowling.

2 . Bowl

[ v. i.]

- To play with bowls.
- To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
- To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

3 . Bowl

[ v. t.]

- To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Meaning of 'bowl' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . bowl

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- engage in the sport of bowling

Example in sentence:

My parents like to bowl on Friday nights

Nearby Words:

bow bow hand bow net bow oar bow-bells bow-compass bow-compasses bow-pen bow-pencil bow-saw

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