Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them;
2.
(cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman;
3.
the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bowling
n 1: a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of
objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
2: (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
3: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc