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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

... do hope I shall draw the right one, Jasper," she said, standing on tiptoe, her fingers trembling over the bowl. ...

— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney

... took three roses into a house—a red one, a white one, very much finer than the first, and the third a dream-rose that takes me into the other world—the kind of yellow rose that sits in a jet bowl leaning on the cross in the ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... one end of the deal table of the papers and books, brushes and chalks that littered it, the citoyenne laid out on it the earthenware soup-bowl, two tin porringers, two iron forks, the loaf of brown bread and a jug of ...

— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France

... was Lothaw's first grand dinner-party. Yet, by carefully watching the others, he managed to acquit himself creditably, and avoided drinking out of the finger-bowl by first secretly testing its contents with a spoon. The conversation ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... tobacco-smoking, as they appeared to his unsophisticated eyes in England. "At the theatres and everywhere else," says the traveller, "the English are constantly smoking tobacco in the following manner. They have pipes, made on purpose, of clay. At the further end of these is a bowl. Into the bowl they put the herb, and then setting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels," and so on; conscientious explanations which a German tourist of our own times might think it superfluous ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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