Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bowling"

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.

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

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.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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


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