Bowling
['bəʊlɪŋ] or ['bolɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc.
(noun.) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman.
(noun.) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them.
Checked by Jo--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowl
(n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
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Examples
- 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.
- They are in the bowling-alley, cried the stranger, darting through the bushes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Story in a Bowling Alley[27] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Buckner with a larger Confederate force at Bowling Green. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the stone age onward the probabilities are that man has always had some kind of bowling game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As we have seen, Columbus, both banks of the Tennessee River, the west bank of the Cumberland and Bowling Green, all were strongly fortified. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But, great as these improvements were over the crudeness of previous centuries, they are not worthy of comparison with a modern bowling academy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Wooden balls for bowling were never satisfactory. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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