Bowl
[bəʊl] or [bol]
Definition
(noun.) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods.
(noun.) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;.
(noun.) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco.
(noun.) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a bowl.
(noun.) a concave shape with an open top.
(verb.) engage in the sport of bowling; 'My parents like to bowl on Friday nights'.
(verb.) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end.
(verb.) roll (a ball).
Editor: Noreen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
(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.
(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.
(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
(v. i.) To play with bowls.
(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
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Definition
n. a basin for domestic use esp. of earthenware or porcelain nearly hemispherical in shape: a large punch-bowl for brewing punch in: a round drinking-cup rather wide than deep—hence 'the bowl ' 'the flowing bowl ' as synonyms for conviviality; the round hollow part of anything.
n. a wooden ball used for rolling along the ground.—v.t. and v.i. to play at bowls: to roll along like a bowl: to throw a ball as in cricket.—ns. Bowl′er one who plays at bowls: one who bowls the ball in cricket; Bowl′ing the act of playing at bowls or of throwing a ball as in cricket; Bowl′ing-al′ley a long narrow covered place for bowling; Bowl′ing-green a green or grassy plat kept smooth for bowling.
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Examples
- Art thou in condition to do good service, friar, said Locksley, or does the brown bowl still run in thy head? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is enough, Robert Jordan said and dipped his cup into the wine bowl. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was smoking a cigarette and he held a bowl of coffee in one hand and blew smoke onto its surface as he raised it to his lips. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To be left to her and her cordial seemed to me something like being left to the poisoner and her bowl. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Get some more port, Bowls, old boy, whilst I buzz this bottle here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The girl came in and walked across to the low table by the hearth and picked up the enameled-ware bowls and brought them to the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She had the street laid knee-deep with straw; and the knocker put by with Mr. Bowls's plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tell Bowls not at home, or go downstairs and say I'm too ill to receive any one. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I beg your pardon, sir, says Bowls, advancing with a profound bow; what 'otel, sir, shall Thomas fetch the luggage from? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the Fire and the Frying Pan to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Bowls, if you please, we will ring when we want you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The scouts were hot and tired; the bowlers were changed and bowled till their arms ached; but Dumkins and Podder remained unconquered. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This dreadful certainty that I shall be bowled out by Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A very small measure will overset him; he may be bowled off his unsteady legs with a half-pint pot. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Poor Quanko--never recovered it--bowled on, on my account--bowled off, on his own--died, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He knocked you over, and would have finished you, but for Dick, who took a pot shot, and bowled him over like a ninepin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The enemy at this time occupied a line running from the Mississippi River at Columbus to Bowling Green and Mill Springs, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bowling, as we know today, is an indoor adaptation of, and an improvement upon, the old Dutch game of nine-pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I could not remember them because we had always passed them bowling along in the car on the main road and they all looked much alike. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In the best hard-wood section of the United States, one of the large bowling equipment manufacturers owns about thirty thousand acres of maple. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hancock who had the lead had marched easterly to Guiney's Station, on the Fredericksburg Railroad, thence southerly to Bowling Green and Milford. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From this raw material is gathered the chief stock that goes into bowling alleys and the pins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A bowling bed cannot be laid as an ordinary floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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