Definitions for bowls

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bowls bowl

Spelling: [bohl]

IPA: /boʊl/

Bowls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in bowls (blosw).

Definitions for bowls

noun

1. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
2. the contents of a bowl:
3. a rounded, cuplike, hollow part:
4. a large drinking cup.
5. festive drinking; conviviality.
6. any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
7. an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
8. Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country:
9. Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
10. one of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
11. one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
12. bowls, (used with a singular verb) lawn bowling.
13. a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
14. (formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.
15. a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).

Verb phrases

1. bowl over, to surprise greatly:

verb (used with object)

1. to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
2. to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
3. to attain by bowling:
4. to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling (usually followed by over or down).
5. to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
6. Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to play at bowling or bowls; participate in or have a game or games of bowling.
2. to roll a bowl or ball.
3. to move along smoothly and rapidly.
4. Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.

Origin of bowls

before 950; Middle English bolle, Old English bolla; cognate with Old Norse bolli. See boll

Examples for bowls

All that grows now is a beautiful double jasmine of which I have bowls full every day, and zinnias, ugly and useful.

There are a hundred and three pieces—plates, platters, cups, bowls.

Every one in the city had jugs and bowls made of wrought gold.

There is a steady flow of bowls of warm water, soapy and clear, delivered by a stream of helpers.

He passed between the men, leaving his bowls besides them on the floor.

The table furnished with bowls, bottles, glasses, and cards.

League owners awarded the 2004 and 2006 bowls to Houston and Detroit because taxpayers funded new stadiums in those cities.

bowls and beer, and cards and betting—it's ter'ble, ma'm, ter'ble.

Two bowls were set before the infant—one containing gold and jewels, the other hot coals.

“In 28 days, I visited 21 different cities and ate 55 bowls of ramen,” he says.