Bowling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Bowling}.]
     1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
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              Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,


              And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we
        were bowled rapidly along the road.
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     3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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              Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,
              And bowled to death with turnips?     --Shak.
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     {To bowl} (a player) {out}, in cricket, to put out a striker
        by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowling \Bowl"ing\, n.
     The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the
     ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bowling
       n 1: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of
            objects with the aim of knocking them over
       2: (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the
          batsman
       3: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc