Bowler
['bəʊlə] or ['bolɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins.
(noun.) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket.
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Definition
(n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
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Examples
- It conforms to the downward curve of the latter, but the rail work begins at the top of the incline and extends back to the newel post at the bowler’s end of the alley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Aha, it is all old hat, it is all old bowler hat! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Oriental peoples who had never heard of nationality before, took to it as they took to the cigarettes and bowler hats of the west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The return chute, or loop-the-loop return, is the railway along which the balls travel in their return from the pit to the bowler. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Who cares a button for our national ideas, any more than for our national bowler hat? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The top contains a sponge cup to moisten the fingers of the bowler. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The wear on the bed occurs where the bowler walks and drops the ball and where the ball strikes the pins; hence the hard maple. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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.
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