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Bowl :: Bowl (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Bellow :: Bellow (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.

Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder..

Bowldery :: Bowldery (a.) Characterized by bowlders.

Jack :: Jack (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.

Bias :: Bias (n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc..

Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..

Under-arm :: Under-arm (a.) Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm..

Crease :: Crease (n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Bowling :: Bowling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bow.

Sneak :: Sneak (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.

Brimmer :: Brimmer (n.) A brimful bowl; a bumper.

Slop :: Slop (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc..

Spare :: Spare (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare..

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