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/bˈoʊlɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Bowling n. 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.

verb

Bowl v. t. (past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)

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."

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

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.

To play with bowls.

To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

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Etymology of 'Bowling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bowling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tellers noted the fact that after his return from New York Mr. Brassfield adopted a new style of signature, and wondered at it. Some noticed a change in all his handwriting, but in these days of the typewriter such a thing makes little difference. His abstention from bowling (to the playing of which Brassfield had been devoted), and his absolute failure at billiards, were discussed in sporting circles, and accounted for on the theory that he had "gone stale" since this love-affair had become the absorbing business of his life. No one understood, ...

— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... see much of the Battery, for he followed the left-hand sidewalk at the Bowling Green, where Broadway turns into Whitehall Street. He had so long been staring at great buildings whose very height made him dizzy, that he was glad to see beside them some ...

— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard

... be smart," cried Newton, as he sprang aft to the wheel, and put up the helm; "man the flying jib-halyards (the jib was under the forefoot); let go the maintop bowling; square the main-yard. That will do; she's paying off. Man your guns; half-a-dozen broadsides, and it's ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough. Then came the public-house, freshly painted in green and white, with tea-gardens and a bowling green, spurning its old neighbour with the horse-trough where the waggons stopped; then, fields; and then, some houses, one by one, of goodly size with lawns, some even with a lodge where dwelt a porter and his wife. Then came a ...

— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... like to!" sighed the enamoured youth. "But I can't go down to the company office in Bowling Green and get back in time to make it. ...

— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen

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