Bowling

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A game played by rolling a ball down a wooden alley in order to knock down a triangular group of ten pins.
  • noun. A similar game, such as duckpins or ninepins.
  • noun. Lawn bowling.
  • noun. The playing of one of these games.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In dyeing, the washing of fabrics by passing them over rollers in a vessel of water.
  • noun. The act of playing with or at bowls.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
  • noun. a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of bowl.
  • noun. A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
  • noun. candlepin bowling
  • noun. Several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
  • noun. The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
  • noun. A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
  • noun. The action of the verb bowl.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • noun. (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
  • noun. the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
  • Word Usage
    "Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance."
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