Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bowled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bowling}.]
1. 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. --Shak.

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

3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And
bowled to death with turnips? --Shak.

{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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