Definitions for: Bowling


[n] the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
[n] (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
[n] a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: bosie, bosie ball, candlepin bowling, candlepins, Chinaman, duckpins, game, googly, lawn bowling, ninepins, no ball, playing, roll, run-up, skittles, tenpin bowling, tenpins, throw, wrong 'un

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