BOWLED
Verb
bowled
simple past tense and past participle of bowl
Adverb
bowled (not comparable)
(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.
Anagrams
• blowed
Source: Wiktionary
BOWL
Bowl, n. Etym: [OE. bolle, AS. bolla; akin to Icel. bolli, Dan.
bolle, G. bolle, and perh. to E. boil a tumor. Cf. Boll.]
1. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately
hemisherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow.
2. Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous
liquors; hence, convival drinking.
3. The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
4. The bollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
Bowl, n. Etym: [F. boule, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud. Cf. Bull an
edict, Bill a writing.]
1. 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.
2. pl.
Definition: An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased
balls on a level plat of greensward.
Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by
delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.
3. pl.
Definition: The game of tenpins or bowling. [U.S.]
Bowl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowling.]
1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round
nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.
2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled
rapidly along the road.
3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death
with turnipsShak.
To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking
down a bail or a stump in bowling.
Bowl, v. i.
1. To play with bowls.
2. To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
3. To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage
bowled along.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition