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Bowl   /boʊl/   Listen
Bowl

noun
1.
A round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids.
2.
A concave shape with an open top.  Synonym: trough.
3.
A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods.
4.
The quantity contained in a bowl.  Synonym: bowlful.
5.
A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments.  Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium.
6.
A large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling.  Synonym: bowling ball.
7.
A wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling.
8.
A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco.  Synonym: pipe bowl.
9.
The act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling).  Synonym: roll.
verb
(past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)
1.
Roll (a ball).
2.
Hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end.
3.
Engage in the sport of bowling.



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"Bowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... up fairly bright, and showed me the barest room I think I ever put my eyes on. Half-a-dozen dishes stood upon the shelves; the table was laid for supper with a bowl of porridge, a horn spoon, and a cup of small beer. Besides what I have named, there was not another thing in that great, stone-vaulted, empty chamber but lockfast chests arranged along the wall and a corner cupboard ...
— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson
... weed, cast high into the darkened heavens by the wild water-spout, only to fall again into the surging deep, to be tossed to and fro on waters which cannot rest! Rash youth! Would you launch away on this sea of death? Quaff of the intoxicating bowl, and soon its hungry waves will be around you. Would you avoid a fate so direful? Seal your lips to the first drop, and the drear prospect will sink ...
— Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness • John Mather Austin
... him, you can't get it out o' 'im, no more nor ye'll draw smoke out o' this,' and he raised his pipe an inch or two, with his thumb on the bowl, 'without backy ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... woman made an effort to overcome her terror. She took up her spoon and dipped it in the milk bowl, but in doing it her hand shook so that all could hear the spoon rattle against the edge. She put it down again at once. "How can I eat?" she said. "Do I not hear the whining of the whetstone, do I not hear ...
— The Treasure • Selma Lagerlof
... these, one was brought up among the rugged hills of Maine; the other two are from the tenement crowds, hardly missed there. But their companion? She is twirling the sticky brown pill over the lamp, preparing to fill the bowl of her pipe with it. As she does so, the sunbeam dances across the bed, kisses the red spot on her cheek that betrays the secret her tyrant long has known,—though to her it is hidden yet,—that the pipe has claimed its victim and soon will pass it ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis


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