English English Dictionary

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

The game of tenpins or bowling.

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

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.

The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.

Alt. of Boulder

Characterized by bowlders.

of Bowl

A crooked leg.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

Destitute of a bow.

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

of Bowl

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

A man who uses a bow; an archer.

of Bowman