BOWLING

bowling

(noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc

bowling

(noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman

bowling

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

bowling

present participle of bowl

Noun

bowling (uncountable)

A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling

(New England) Candlepin bowling.

Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.

(cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.

(slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.

(gerund) The action of the verb bowl.

(Ireland) Road bowling.

Anagrams

• blowing

Proper noun

Bowling (countable and uncountable, plural Bowlings)

A surname.

A village on the Clyde in West Dunbartonshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4473).

A suburban area in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1731).

An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bowling is the 1311^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 26762 individuals. Bowling is most common among White (91.39%) individuals.

Anagrams

• blowing

Source: Wiktionary

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Bowl"ing, n.

Definition: The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.

– Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New Amsterdam played this game.

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

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